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Maya Corrigan

Maya Corrigan combines her love of food and detective stories in her Five-Ingredient Mysteries, featuring a young woman and her young-at-heart grandfather solving murders in a Chesapeake Bay town. Each book has five suspects, five clues, and Granddad’s five-ingredient recipes. A former English professor, Maya finds inspiration for her mysteries in the writings of Poe, Dickens, and Christie. Her latest novel, A Parfait Crime, is now available.

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"The Mousetrap": Still Going Strong After 28,000 Performances

"[I]t does what theater is meant to do: engage our emotions, not just our little gray cells"

A Foretaste of Culinary Cozy Mysteries

On the original gourmands of Golden Age detective fiction.

December 2, 2022 By Maya Corrigan

When Valentines Were Vicious: A Brief History of the Vinegar Valentine

"Tis a lemon that I hand you / And bid you now “skidoo” / Because I love another— / There is no chance for you!"

February 12, 2021 By Maya Corrigan

The Surprisingly Dark History of Gingerbread

Long before it became a holiday treat, gingerbread was a royal favorite, a token of fertility, and a tool for witches to exact their vengeance.

December 7, 2020 By Maya Corrigan

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