Catherine Bruns is an American cozy mystery author best known for the Cookies & Chance series, beginning with Tastes Like Murder. Centered on baker Sally “Sal” Muccio, the books combine small-town crime, family complications, food, humor, and amateur sleuthing... within a recurring Upstate New York community. Bruns has expanded her mystery fiction through the Cindy York novels, the Italian Chef mysteries, and the Maple Syrup series, using settings such as real estate, restaurants, and a Vermont sugarhouse to create distinct investigative worlds. Her background in journalism shows in her clear pacing and accessible, dialogue-driven style. Readers return to Bruns for playful titles, close-knit casts, culinary atmosphere, and mysteries that deliver genuine clues and motives without losing the warmth and familiarity that define cozy crime.
