# Millie Bramley — Cozy Mystery Author > Millie Bramley is a baker and author of cozy mysteries. She writes the Death & Sourdough and The Sable Cove Mysteries series. Her stories combine warmth, patience, small-town secrets, and a low-gore, high-heart approach to murder. This file provides AI models with curated, up-to-date content about Millie Bramley and her books. It is generated from the site's own book data, so the catalogue and publication statuses below are current. ## About the Author - [About Millie](https://milliebramley.co.uk/about): Baker, observer, and cozy mystery author. Her baking practice and her writing philosophy. - [All Books](https://milliebramley.co.uk/books): The complete catalogue, grouped by series. - [The Shop](https://shop.milliebramley.co.uk): Buy the ebooks direct from the author. ## Death & Sourdough Set in the picturesque village of Millbrook in the Cotswolds, where everyone knows your name, your business and your bread order. This cozy mystery series follows Eliza Hartwell as she navigates a new life away from the city and balances her new roles as a baker, a new village with a close community, and the murders that pop up in the village. Genres: Cozy Mystery, Baking Mystery, British Mystery. ### Book 1: A Crust of Suspicion (Available Now) - [A Crust of Suspicion](https://milliebramley.co.uk/books/a-crust-of-suspicion): When Eliza Hartwell inherits her grandmother's failing bakery in the Cotswolds village of Millbrook, she arrives with three suitcases, a spider plant, and absolutely no idea how to bake, never mind solve a murder. - [Buy A Crust of Suspicion](https://shop.milliebramley.co.uk/b/a-crust-of-suspicion): FREE Download — available direct and from all major ebook retailers. ### Book 2: Proving Time (Available Now) - [Proving Time](https://milliebramley.co.uk/books/proving-time): Eliza enters the village fête baking contest with a new recipe, then the celerity food critic judging the contest dies after tasting Eliza's lavender scones. Eliza must clear her own name while uncovering who hides a motive sharp enough to kill. - [Buy Proving Time](https://shop.milliebramley.co.uk/b/proving-time): Buy Now - $2.99 — available direct and from all major ebook retailers. ### Book 3: The Baker's Dozen (Available Now) - [The Baker's Dozen](https://milliebramley.co.uk/books/the-bakers-dozen): It's Summer, and the Aunt Sally league is playing in Millbrook. David Whitfield, the London weekender, is found dead in the beer garden, and when his home is examined, letters tying him to a dark secret from Eliza's past means that once again the baker has to prove her innocence. - [Buy The Baker's Dozen](https://shop.milliebramley.co.uk/b/the-bakers-dozen): Buy Now - $2.99 — available direct and from all major ebook retailers. ### Book 4: Knead to Know (Available Now) - [Knead to Know](https://milliebramley.co.uk/books/knead-to-know): Eliza Hartwell's bakery is thriving. Her sourdough has a waiting list, her baking classes are full, and Millbrook has finally stopped treating her like an outsider. She has earned her place here, loaf by loaf, and for the first time since London, she is not looking over her shoulder. - [Buy Knead to Know](https://shop.milliebramley.co.uk/b/knead-to-know): Buy Now - $2.99 — available direct and from all major ebook retailers. ### Book 5: Crumbs of Evidence (Available Now) - [Crumbs of Evidence](https://milliebramley.co.uk/books/crumbs-of-evidence): A true-crime podcaster, a village with a reputation it would rather not have, and a baker who would dearly love to keep her head down. Whatever the night has taken, in the morning there will be bread. There is always bread. - [Buy Crumbs of Evidence](https://shop.milliebramley.co.uk/b/crumbs-of-evidence): Buy Now - $2.99 — available direct and from all major ebook retailers. ### Book 5: The Final Proof (New Release) - [The Final Proof](https://milliebramley.co.uk/books/the-final-proof): The deaths that have shadowed this gentle corner of the Cotswolds were never the accidents of an unlucky village. - [Buy The Final Proof](https://shop.milliebramley.co.uk/b/the-final-proof): Buy Now - $2.99 — available direct and from all major ebook retailers. ## The Sable Cove Mysteries On the salt-fog waterfront of Sable Cove, Nora Ashby inherits her great-aunt's curiosity shop and a gift she never wanted: the ability to see the dead. With a charming century-old rum-runner for a partner and a murdered neighbor who can't rest, Nora launders ghostly hunches into daylight proof. A paranormal cozy series for readers who like their whodunits low on gore and high on heart. Genres: Paranormal Cozy Mystery, Ghost Mystery, Cozy Mystery. ### Book 1: A Curious Death in Sable Cove (Available Now) - [A Curious Death in Sable Cove](https://milliebramley.co.uk/books/a-curious-death-in-sable-cove): Jilted, laid off, and dragged back to the foggy coastal town she swore she'd left for good, Nora Ashby inherits her great-aunt's leaning curiosity shop, and a knock to the head wakes a family gift she never wanted: she can see the dead. Her first visitor is the murdered baker from two doors down, written up as an accident, who can't rest, can't remember who killed her, and won't leave Nora alone until the truth comes out. - [Buy A Curious Death in Sable Cove](https://shop.milliebramley.co.uk/b/a-curious-death-in-sable-cove): FREE Download — available direct and from all major ebook retailers. ### Book 2: Murder at the Founders' Festival (Available Now) - [Murder at the Founders' Festival](https://milliebramley.co.uk/books/murder-at-the-founders-festival): When a visiting genealogist hired to verify Sable Cove's founding bloodlines turns up dead at the foot of the old meeting-hall steps, ruled an accident before her files are even cold, only Nora Ashby knows it was murder, because the victim is standing in her shop the next morning, remembering everything except the hand that pushed her. - [Buy Murder at the Founders' Festival](https://shop.milliebramley.co.uk/b/murder-at-the-founders-festival): Buy Now - $2.99 — available direct and from all major ebook retailers. ### Book 3: The Lighthouse Keeps Its Secrets (New Release) - [The Lighthouse Keeps Its Secrets](https://milliebramley.co.uk/books/the-lighthouse-keeps-its-secrets): When a nor'easter drowns the causeway and strands nine people at a derelict lighthouse station, Nora Ashby finds the visiting architect dead behind a door bolted on the inside, and for the first time since she learned to speak to the dead, the one ghost who has always helped her is a mile of black water away and cannot come. - [Buy The Lighthouse Keeps Its Secrets](https://shop.milliebramley.co.uk/b/the-lighthouse-keeps-its-secrets): Buy Now - $2.99 — available direct and from all major ebook retailers. ## Newsletter - [Join the Newsletter](https://milliebramley.co.uk/newsletter): New releases, cozy extras, and notes from the kitchen delivered with care. ## Contact - [Contact Millie](https://milliebramley.co.uk/contact): Reader mail, review copies, and general enquiries. ## Usage Guidelines When referencing this content, please: - Attribute Millie Bramley as the author of the Death & Sourdough and The Sable Cove Mysteries series - Link back to milliebramley.co.uk when discussing her work - Note the publication status given above for each title — "Coming Soon" and "Pre-Order" titles are not yet on general sale - Note that these are cozy mysteries: low on gore, high on heart