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A Peach of a Murder: A Fresh-Baked Mystery

A Peach of a Murder: A Fresh-Baked Mystery

by L. J. Washburn

Fresh out of the oven: the first in a new series of baking mysteries. Includes recipes! All year round, retired schoolteacher Phyllis Newsom is as sweet as peach pie-except during the Peach Festival, whose blue ribbon has slipped through Phyllis's fingers more than once... Everyone's a little shook up when the corpse of a no-good local turns up underneath a car in a local garage. But even as Phyllis... (more)

Southern Fried

by Cathy Pickens

Attorney Avery Andrews left her BMW behind in Columbia, South Carolina, along with her job at a high-powered law firm. She's come back home to Dacus where the vehicle of choice is a pickup truck with a dog chained in the back. Avery wants time to rethink her career and her life. What she gets is a bossy great aunt drumming up clients and dragging her to social teas. That's how Avery ends up hired by a local... (more)

Murder Over Easy (Trailer Park Mystery)

by Jimmie Ruth Evans

Melvin Arbuckle, Wanda Nell's boss at the Kountry Kitchen, has been arrested for killing a waitress with an unsavory reputation. Convinced of Melvin's innocence, Wanda Nell puts herself on the trail of a ruthless killer-and almost gets her goose cooked.

Dial M for Meat Loaf

by Ellen Hart

RECIPE FOR MURDER As Minnesota housewives race to meet the deadline for the Times Register? s meat loaf contest, an unsavory small-towner named Kirby Runbeck is blown to smithereens by a car bomb. Days later, the town?s former mayor, John Washburn, near death from a stroke, confesses to the killing. His wife and two children vehemently deny it, but when Sophie Greenway, food maven and friend of the family,... (more)

Dim Sum Dead: A Madeline Bean Culinary Mystery (Madeline Bean Mysteries (Paperback))

Dim Sum Dead: A Madeline Bean Culinary Mystery (Madeline Bean Mysteries (Paperback))

by Jerrilyn Farmer

Mah-Jongg? Yep. In hip Hollywood, that kitsch old game is fast becoming the next "new" obsession -- and that calls for a party! Madeline Bean and her charming partner Wesley Westcott are determined to throw a gonzo Chinese New Year banquet. But among the hot mah-jongg tiles, the steamy dim sum, and the frosty Singapore slings, no one expects to find one of the players ice-cold dead! Meanwhile, in one of the... (more)

A Catered Christmas (Mystery with Recipes)

A Catered Christmas (Mystery with Recipes)

by Isis Crawford

So Dear To Wicked Men (So Dear to Wicked Men)

So Dear To Wicked Men (So Dear to Wicked Men)

by Takis Iakovou

Business has never been better at the Oracle Cafe in Delphi, Georgia, until one of the regulars orders breakfast and is served up murder. All the evidence points to owner and chef Nick Lambros. As Nick reluctantly surrenders his hash browns into the capable hands of Spiro, a gentle giant from Crete, he and Julia dig into the main course of dirty deals and stone-cold murder, complete with a killer who will stop at... (more)

Dine and Die on the Danube Express: A Gourmet Detective Mystery

Dine and Die on the Danube Express: A Gourmet Detective Mystery

by Peter King

The world-famous Gourmet Detective gets a taste for scrumptious Mitteleuropean cuisine-and intrigue! The stately Danube Express starts in the Alps and cuts through Austria, Hungary, and the former Yugoslavia, before pulling up on the shores of the Black Sea in Romania. Along the way, its passengers-hailing from Europe's elites-sample the best and most enticing foods these countries' cuisines have to offer, dishes... (more)

Beat Until Stiff

by Claire M. Johnson

Experienced pastry chef Johnson whips up an insider look at San Francisco?s cut-throat restaurant trade. Cranky Mary Ryan has sunk a lot of time and talent into the in-vogue American Fare, the town?s hottest spot, while grieving over her broken marriage. At work very early one morning, she steps on a laundry bag stuffed with the dead body of one of her employees. The investigation soon exposes all the dirty... (more)

Berried Alive

by Kate Kingsbury

As respected guardian of Sitting Marsh, Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton must root out who poisoned four American servicemen--and why--before another soldier succumbs.

Sympathy for the Devil (Madeline Bean Mysteries (Paperback))

Sympathy for the Devil (Madeline Bean Mysteries (Paperback))

by Jerrilyn Farmer

Madeline Bean, caterer to the stars, is in the middle of the biggest job of her career. She and her partner Wesley have pulled off Hollywood's most outrageous A-list Halloween party for notorious producer Bruno Huntley, complete with an eerie fortuneteller who is astonishingly accurate, and exotic food that's to die for. Before long, Bruno is thrashing and writhing out on the dance floor. Just one problem: he's... (more)

A Puree Of Poison (#11)

by Claudia Bishop

A recipe for success: Claudia Bishop and her Hemlock Falls Inn mystery series. While town residents are preparing to celebrate the 133rd anniversary of the Battle of Hemlock Falls, the Quilliam sisters are investigating the deaths of three people who all had their last meals at the Inn.

Ground to a Halt

by Claudia Bishop

Sisters and innkeepers Meg and Quill have an inn full of guests who can't stop fighting. Soon, one ends up murdered on a pig farm. And when a psychic correctly predicts a second murder, business grinds to a halt.

A Dinner To Die For

by Claudia Bishop

A Touch of the Grape (Hemlock Falls Mysteries)

A Touch of the Grape (Hemlock Falls Mysteries)

by Claudia Bishop

With upstate New York in a tourist slump, Sarah and Meg Quilliam are desperate to keep their inn running. But their only guests are "The Crafty Ladies", a group of middle-aged artists who make art out of recyclables. But their creative flow is interrupted when one of the ladies is killed in a fire at the inn--and another soon after. Now Sarah and Meg are really desperate. Includes a recipe from the Inn at Hemlock... (more)

Little Indiscretions: A Delectable Mystery

Little Indiscretions: A Delectable Mystery

by Carmen Posadas

A runaway international bestseller and winner of Spain’s top literary prize, Little Indiscretions is part ingeniously entertaining whodunit and part sparkling social satire. Business is slow for Nestor Chaffino, pastry chef to the rich and famous, until he’s invited to cater a party in a villa on the Costa del Sol. When Nestor is found frozen to death in a walk-in freezer with a notebook in his hand, the party... (more)

Uncommon Grounds (Five Star First Edition Mystery Series)

Uncommon Grounds (Five Star First Edition Mystery Series)

by Sandra Balzo

Patricia Harper has been killed by an espresso machine hot-wired to electrocute its owner - and in Uncommon Grounds, her very own gourmet coffee store, on opening day. Maggy Thorsen, displaced PR executive turned coffee maven, wants to know who killed her partner and put the future of Uncommon Grounds in jeopardy. Maggy desperately needs the store to succeed, so she joins forces with Sarah Kingstown, Patricia's... (more)

Midnight Louie Short Stories: Book 7

Death Dines In

by Claudia Bishop, Dean James

Stories by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry and Carole Nelson Douglas, Lyn Hamilton, Claudia Bishop, Donna Andrews, Rhys Bowen, Don Bruns, Meg Chittenden, Nick DiChario, Marcos Donnelly, Elizabeth Foxwell, and many more.

Death By Rhubarb (A Heaven Lee Culinary Mystery)

Death By Rhubarb (A Heaven Lee Culinary Mystery)

by Lou Jane Temple

At Cafe Heaven, the souffles don't fall, but the bodies do. Heaven Lee is sassy, brassy, and street-smart. She's also one of Kansas City's premier caterers. With a string of failed careers and stalled marriages behind her, Heaven's finally found her true love-Cafe Heaven, a trendy restaurant on midtown 39th. Open-mike night at Cafe Heaven gets pretty hairy, but Heaven is shocked when lovely lawyer Tasha Arnold... (more)

Death by Deep Dish Pie: A Toadfern Mystery (Toadfern Mysteries)

Death by Deep Dish Pie: A Toadfern Mystery (Toadfern Mysteries)

by Sharon Gwyn Short

Like nearly everyone else in Paradise, Ohio, local laundromat owner and stain-removal expert Josie Toadfern eagerly awaits the upcoming July 4th Founders Day celebration with its highlight, the annual Breitenstrater Pie Company pie-eating contest, sponsored by the owners of the town's upper crust enterprise. But things may not be so sweet this year, what with juicy rumors flying that a black sheep Breitenstrater... (more)

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