“EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD DOES CARTWHEELS DOWN MONARCH STREET!”

Mr. Jefferson Baxter performed multiple cartwheels in front of a crowd of afternoon shoppers and merchants. Baxter, who has walked with the aid of a cane for the past seven years, claims that he experienced a surge of joy so compelling that he felt the need to express it through movement. When asked how he was able to display such remarkable agility, Baxter was unable to provide an explanation. His only comment was that the pie he’d had for More...

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Overall Rating: 5.00
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First thought when finished: Hands down one of my favorite cozy mysteries--EVER! I know the name suggests it but this is NOT a Pride and Prejudice set book.

What I Thought of the Story: Pies and Prejudice is probably the best cozy mystery that I have read in two years and I have read some really good cozy mysteries! The story takes place after Ella Mae comes back to her hometown after a failed relationship. She is dealing wi More...

Wow. Yet another example of how bad a book can be when an author writes what they do NOT know. The idea of this book is right up my alley. Cozy mystery, a little magic, a little romance - I was really looking forward to it. Yes, the trope of food with magical qualities has been done A LOT, magical pies specifically are certainly not new, but I enjoy it & could always have more.

However, so disappointing to start the actual reading! First of all, if your main character is going to specialize i More...

Pies and Prejudice has an engaging heroine, charming characters, and an intriguing take on magic powers. After catching her husband cheating on her, Ella Mae LeFay Kitteridge flees New York and returns to her hometown of Havenwood, Georgia. Her mother and aunts soon set her up in a business, the Charmed Pie Shop. Ella Mae’s sweet and savory pies make the café and bakery an immediate success. Ella Mae’s happiness curdles when her lifelong rival, Loralyn Gaynor, threatens her little dog, Chewy. T More...

Ellery Adams is the author of the Books by the Bay mystery series, most of which I've reviewed here on Stuff and Nonsense. Her most recent book, Pies and Prejudice, is the first of a new series called The Charmed Pie Shoppe Mysteries, and will be released next Tuesday, July 3.

The protagonist is Ella Mae LaFaye, who left her hometown of Havenwood, Georgia to marry Sloan Kitteredge, with whom she moved to New York. Although she'd been eager to leave small-town life, when she found Sloan in a very More...

Three and a half stars: A charming cozy mystery that makes you crave pie!

When the elevator doors whisk open to take Ella Mae up to her apartment, she is shocked and horrified to see her husband doing the nasty with two red headed twins in the elevator! Without thinking, she chucks her pie ingredients at the adulterers and flees. She arrives at her mother's door in rural Georgia with nothing but the clothes on her back and her puppy, Chewy. Broken hearted, Ella Mae is looking to restart her life. More...

Having returned to Havenwood, GA, Ella Mae LeFaye's hometown, to sever her seven year marriage, Ella Mae finds her family, Mother and three aunts, more than ready to help her. Knowing that Ella Mae has an unique ability to bake pies, the family closes ranks and within a week, leases and outfits "The Charmed Pie Shoppe."

It is disclosed to the reader that the pies are special indeed, and that adds quite a bit of humor to the story. Ella Mae is slower on the realization that her family and herself More...

After catching her husband cheating on her, Ella Mae LeFaye leaves New York and heads to her hometown of Havenwood, Georgia. She intends to start over in a place that’s familiar to her, surrounded by her beloved aunts and her mother. Ella Mae’s dream is to bake pies in her own pie shop.

With financial help from her family, Ella Mae opens “The Charmed Pie Shoppe” and it’s an immediate success. She is stunned when she realizes she has her own special talent when it comes to baking pies. Somehow sh More...

Having discovered her husband in an elevator fooling around with two sisters, Ella Mae LeFaye moves back home to small town Georgia. Her aunts, her mother, and the family housekeeper all band together to support her and get Ella Mae on her feet again. Ella Mae's old high school nemesis, the much-married and rich Loralyn Gaynor is making trouble for her, needling her at every turn.

Ella Mae discovers her real talent is baking and cooking, especially pies. It seems an special and unique ingredient More...

When Ella Mae LeFaye catches her husband in the act of cheating on her, she dumps a few baking ingredients on the guilty parties, picks up her Jack Russell terrier, leaves New York, and heads home to Havenwood, Georgia. There she reunites with her aunts and tries to work out things with her mom. Her mom was not happy when she got married and moved to New York and their relationship has been strained ever since.

Ella has a gift for baking the most delicious pies. Her aunts convince her that her d More...

I'm going to have to run to my thesaurus to find synonyms for "charming" because that's what this book is--and not just charming as in cute but charming as in magical also. Of course that's the whole premise of the book and the "Charmed Pie Shoppe" but the author really fulfills the promise and writes in a very enchanted style too. I was absorbed from the first and after a while felt like the characters were old friends and I couldn't wait to see what they would do. I have to say, I'd read a lot More...

Pies and Prejudice is a wonderful cozy mystery blended with just a touch of magic. Just as in Like Water for Chocolate, Ella Mae has the ability to infuse her baking with her emotions at the time of preparation with often hilarious results. Add in some magical aunties, a loving but slightly distant mother, a HOT fireman and a southern belle bully for some supporting characters and you, too, will be relishing your time in Havenwood, Georgia with Ella Mae LeFaye and her family. Then you add in the More...

The mystery and the magical parts of this story are enjoyable and I liked the secondary characters, particularly the aunts. The main character, Ella Mae, is too passive. She wants a pie shop, her family does all the work in setting it up. She wants a divorce but refuses to go back to NY to take care of it or get her stuff, so she'll just wait for six months before she can file in Georgia, and wonder if she'll ever see her stuff again (seriously? Doesn't she have at least one friend from her year More...

Pies, charmed pies, what a great idea. Ella Mae LeFaye bakes pies when there's a crisis, however, hers are charmed. She left her husband when she found him in the elevator cheating on her with twins. She left the big city and went home to Havenwood, Georgia with her tail between her legs, back to her loving family. When she learns that the pies she makes can influence other peoples moods and actions, she's shocked, but learns how to use her gift. Her family wants her to open a bakery, her old en More...

Pies and Prejudice is the wonderful first book in the A Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery series from Ellery Adams.

Ella Mae, after catching her husband in a comprising position with a set of twins in their apartments elevator, she leaves him. She leaves with just the clothes on her back and Charleston Chew, her Jack Russell terrier, well, she did stop by the ATM machine before she headed for the small community of Havenwood, Ga, the town she left just a few years ago.

Having attended culinary school whi More...

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My love of cozies knows no bounds. They're such a guilty pleasure and when I heard about this new series, I immediately pounced on it.

After Ella Mae LaFaye discovered her husband of seven years in an elevator entertaining a pair of redheaded twins, she grabbed her dog Chewy and left New York. She headed for her own of Havenwood, Georgia where her mother and aunts welcomed her back and wasted no time helping Ella Mae get back on her feet.

Years of culinary s More...

Ellery Avery has given us a really fun read with Pies and Prejudice. This first book in the Charmed Pie series finds Ella Mae LeFaye returning to her hometown after finding her husband in the elevator of their apartment building in NYC with the red-headed twins from one of the apartments cheating on her. With that she returns to the loving arms of her aunts, mother and housekeeper who helped raise her.am of opening a Pie Shop is realize with the help of her family. The only difference is that it More...

I was already a fan of Ms. Adams' Books By the Bay cozy mystery series, and I adored this newly released series entry. Her characters are magically colorful and the feel of this novel is a little more light hearted than By the Bay, although both series involve murders. In Pies and Prejudice, the main character returns home after 7 years, as a result of catching her husband en flagrante with neighboring twins. As she debates her future, her delightful aunts convince her to try opening a pie shop, More...

I'm in a mystery type of mood. I want them short, and sweet, and if there's a little spice added to it, even better.

Pies and Prejudice by Ellery Adams, was just that. It was a fast paced story, the characters were super interesting (especially the LaFaye sister's - Ella's aunts and mother), the mystery itself was well written. And it did have a little added spice. There's a slim possibility that Ella and Hugh may have a future, but I would like to see Ella resolve her marriage and trust issues More...

This is a cute start to what seems like a promising new series. There were a few inconcistinces that I found and I'm still a little unclear on some of the resolutions that's why I gave the 3 stars instead of 4. But its a cute little mystery that kept me guessing until the reveal. You also get several studs and some witch behavior. I really got tired or reading Ella Mae every time her name came up and felt that could have been shortened so I just started reading Ella and leaving the Mae off. I'm More...

First in a new series by a mystery author who writes under several pseudonyms. Set in a small Georgia town this story was too contrived. There was a metaphor or simile on nearly every page. The main character, Ella Mae, was far too clueless ignoring or explaining away the incidents of magic around her. After presenting her nemesis from childhood, Lauralyn inexplicably acquiesced to Ella Mae's demands and rights a wrong done to someone else. Customers reactions to Ella Mae's pies was over the top More...

I love finding a new series by an author I already have on the 'soonest get' list. I was excited to find that Ellery Adams had written a paranormal cozy series. I had it on the WWBL as soon as I saw it and read it as soon as it hit my nightstand.
I had it as a purse book and read it in almost one sitting on a quiet shift.
I loved the characters, the setting, the premise. Ella Mae's aunts were awesome and each had their individual quirks that made me love them. I could identify with Ella's relati More...

When 32 year old Ella Mae LeFaye Kitteridge catches her hubby in flagrante delicto in the elevator, with twins no less, she decides she wants out. Sooner rather than later. Where to go?

She hightails it back to Havenwood, Georgia to her childhood home. In times of stress, Ella Mae overdoes it on her favorite occupation; baking pies! When her beloved three aunts,her mother and her mother's housekeeper, eat her pie and all have the same reaction, they figure out the pie makes whoever is eating it f More...

Once again Ellery Adams has made magic. This new series was filled with fun and mystery. The LeFaye women are engimatic and you only want to learn more about them. The story is woven beautifully with elements of surprise and romance. All of the character jump off the page and you thrust into the middle of Ella Mae's story. Ella Mae can make magical pies and is thrown into turmoil when she is accused of murder. Throw in the gorgeous fireman Hugh Dylan, aka Ella Mae's childhood love and this is a More...

This is a very cute little cozy murder mystery. Writing is decent and reliable, no mistakes that pull you out of the story. But also easy to read and I never got lost in the story line. It's not a very believable mystery, but the whole point of reading is to get away from reality, right. Besides, there's a magical undertone throughout the whole book, so "believable" is not really appropriate. The main character is a little dull, but she's nice and good-hearted, easy to like. It'd be more interes More...

With her life in wreckage, Ella Mae flees from New York back to her Georgia home, her three aunts, her mother and the housekeeper who raised her. There she finds her old high school crush, still gorgeous, and her all-time nemesis, still vicious. When she opens a pie shop, she discovers that she has unusual powers, but she also becomes the suspect in a murder case and has to concentrate on that, and on her growing business. I will probably read the next one, to see where Adams is going with this, More...

This book was absolutely enchanting. Contrary to what the title might have you believe, this isn’t a retelling of Pride and Prejudice with pies. Instead we get a heroine coming into her own mixed with a murder mystery, sprinkled with some romance, and topped with a little magic. The characters were kooky and endearing, the setting was charming, and the magic was used just enough to be intriguing. I cannot wait to read the next book in this series.

Ella Mae has recently returned to her home town a More...

This is the first book in a new cozy mystery series. Ella Mae LaFaye has returned to her small hometown in Georgia after catching her husband cheating on her in New York. Moving back home has its challenges, but she is encouraged by the support of her aunts and begins rebuilding her relationship with her mother. She decides to put her baking talents to use by opening a pie shop, but finds herself at odds again with an old school rival who intends to buy the shop to expand her salon empire. Ella More...

Ella Mae LaFaye loves baking pies. So when she catches her husband cheating in New York, with twins no less, she heads back home to Havenwood, Georgia, where she can drown her sorrows in fresh fruit filling and flakey crust. But her pies aren't just delicious. As I was reading the book I found that the pies had magical properties about them, which more or less turned me off as I was reading the book, and I almost didn't finish reading it.

Discovering her hidden talent for enchantment, Ella Mae ma More...