Using the pen name Avery Aames, Daryl Wood Gerber writes the best-selling Cheese Shop Mystery series featuring Charlotte Bessette. Charlotte is a cheese shop owner in the fictional town of Providence, Ohio, who cares about family above all else. The first book in the series, The Long Quiche Goodbye (Berkley), won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel.

Gerber also writes the Cookbook Nook Mystery series which will debut in July 2013. The protagonist, Jenna Hart, is a cookbook store owner on the California coast who is also an avid reader and an admitted foodie. The first title in this new series is Final Sentence (Penguin).

Daryl has also written short stories and screenplays and has appeared on “Murder, She Wrote,” in addition to commercials and other TV shows.