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The Pączek Lane Mysteries · Book Four · Available now
Marta Kowal
Culinary cozy mysteries from a small town in Poland.
Four mysteries are available now.
Read them in order, beginning with A Deadly Pączek.
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Meet Lena & Pyza
A bakery, a body in the cellar, and a cat with opinions.
Lena Mazur is thirty-four, recently unemployed, and — as of Tuesday — the unexpected owner of her late grandmother's bakery on Pączek Lane. She came to Miłosław for a week. The stone lion in the market square is the most sensible thing she's met here. The dead man in the cellar is the least.
Pyza, the bakery's resident orange cat, has been here longer than any human and disapproves of all of them. She gets the epilogue.
I'd like to say I kept my head when I found him. I didn't. I dropped a tray of unbaked pączki on my foot, which is how I learned that yeast dough, at the wrong moment, makes an excellent cushion and a worse alibi. — From Chapter One
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Book One
A Deadly Pączek
When Lena Mazur inherits her grandmother's bakery in a Polish town she can barely pronounce, she expects dust, paperwork, and perhaps a few stubborn recipes written in Babcia Zofia's spidery hand. She does not expect a body behind the 1920s brick oven, a butcher with too many opinions, or a local police sergeant who takes his coffee the way he takes his suspects: slowly, and with great suspicion.
As the first snow settles on the market square and the stone lion turns silver in the streetlight, Lena discovers that Miłosław keeps its secrets the way it keeps its pastries — warm, layered, and not meant for outsiders. To clear her name, she'll have to learn the town, learn the oven, and learn to trust a cat named Pyza who clearly already knows everything.
Book Two · Available now
Harvest of Lies
Summer in Miłosław means harvest festival crowds, fresh pączki, and more tourists than Lena Mazur ever wanted to serve before coffee. It also means cameras.
When a television crew arrives to cover the region's harvest traditions, the attention is good for business, until one of the festival's most visible guests ends up dead and the celebration turns into a crime scene. Between festival chaos, bakery deadlines, and a growing list of suspects, Lena will have to figure out which lies were staged for the audience and which ones were worth killing for.
Book Three · Available now
The Baker's Secret
Winter settles over Miłosław, and Lena Mazur should be focused on gingerbread, Christmas orders, and surviving the holiday rush.
Instead, an old photograph and a trail of wartime secrets pull her into the deepest mystery her grandmother ever left behind. As snow closes in, Lena must decide how much truth Miłosław can bear — and how much of her grandmother's silence was meant to protect the town she loved.
Book Four · Available now
The Easter Deception
Spring returns to Miłosław, and Lena Mazur is preparing an Easter tasting that could put her bakery on the map. Then a food critic is found dead in her kitchen.
Behind the festive cakes lie family secrets, dangerous ambitions, and clues that are not quite what they seem. With Pyza watching over the counter, Lena must untangle a mystery no recipe can solve.
Tajemnice z Pączkowej Uliczki
Czytaj po polsku.
Lena Mazur, cukiernia w Miłosławiu i kotka Pyza — teraz także w polskich wydaniach drukowanych. Wybierz tom w twardej oprawie w zwykłej sprzedaży na Amazon.pl.
To Twoja pierwsza wizyta w Miłosławiu? Zacznij od „Zabójczego pączka”, a następnie sięgnij po „Żniwo kłamstw”. Zobacz polskie tomy na Amazon.pl.
The Series
Six mysteries. One small town. One very large cat.
Books 1–4 available now · More mysteries planned
Book II
Harvest of Lies
Book III
The Baker's Secret
Book IV
The Easter Deception
Book V
The Summer Recipe
Planned
Book VI
The Last Recipe
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About the Author
Marta Kowal
Marta Kowal writes cozy mysteries set in the small towns of Wielkopolska, the part of western Poland where she spent her childhood summers. When she isn't writing, she's baking — usually badly, occasionally brilliantly — and making notes for the next Pączek Lane mystery.
She lives with too many cookbooks and one opinionated cat.
— Marta
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