Murder on the Menu

Murder on the Menu

Author: Miranda Bliss

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-06-05

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1101206020

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Best friends Annie and Eve know the bare bones of both culinary school and amateur sleuthing. Now they’re in the trenches, struggling to keep a new restaurant, Bellywasher’s, from going belly up… Annie and Eve have joined their former cooking teacher, Jim—who doubles as Annie’s on-again, off-again boyfriend—in running his new restaurant, Bellywasher’s. Bombshell Eve is the hostess, while Annie stays behind the scenes, frantically managing everything from the books to the radicchio supply. Then a rave review makes the spot an instant success, drawing Washington’s high-powered elite to sample Jim’s cooking…people with both money and secrets to burn. Everything’s simmering along just fine until Annie and Eve find their friend Sarah, staffer to a powerful Congressman, lying dead in her tub. The cops want to write it off as a suicide, but the girls notice that, like Annie’s invoices, the facts just don’t add up. Then, after a series of suspicious “accidents” that come dangerously close to taking the girls permanently out of commission, Annie and Eve realize that this kitchen fire isn’t about to put itself out…


Murder in the Kitchen

Murder in the Kitchen

Author: Alice B. Toklas

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2011-04-07

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 0141965908

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In this memoir-turned-cookbook, Alice B. Toklas describes her life with partner Gertrude Stein and their famed Paris salon, which entertained the great avant-garde and literary figures of their day. With dry wit and characteristic understatement Toklas ponders the ethics of killing a carp in her kitchen before stuffing it with chestnuts; decorating a fish to amuse Picasso at lunch; and travelling across France during the First World War in an old delivery truck, gathering local recipes along the way. She includes a friend's playful recipe for 'Haschiche Fudge', which promises 'brilliant storms of laughter and ecstatic reveries', much like her book.


Cinco de Murder

Cinco de Murder

Author: Rebecca Adler

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0425275957

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Tex-Mex waitress and part-time reporter Josie Callahan serves up more Lone Star justice in this spicy mystery from the author of The Good, the Bad, and the Guacamole. It's fiesta time in Broken Boot, Texas, and tourists are pouring into town faster than free beer at a bull roping for the mouthwatering Cinco de Mayo festivities. Tex-Mex waitress Josie Callahan, her feisty abuela, and even her spunky Chihuahua Lenny are polishing their folklórico dances for Saturday's big parade, while Uncle Eddie is adding his own spicy event to the fiesta menu: Broken Boot's First Annual Charity Chili Cook-off. But Uncle Eddie's hopes of impressing the town council go up in smoke when cantankerous chili cook Lucky Straw is found dead in his tent. And when Josie's beloved uncle is accused of fatal negligence, she, Lenny, and the steadfast Detective Lightfoot must uncover who ended the ambitious chilihead's life--before another cook kicks the bucket.


Murder Has a Sweet Tooth

Murder Has a Sweet Tooth

Author: Miranda Bliss

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 9780425231609

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When her fiancé's cousin, Alex--a notorious ladies' man--is accused of murder, Annie Capshaw, instead of handling the details of her impending nuptials, must prove his innocence and discovers that marriage can be murder. Original


Murder as Savory as Biscuits

Murder as Savory as Biscuits

Author: Diana Orgain

Publisher: Diana Orgain

Published: 2021-04-17

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13:

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Now that he's back from serving his country, all police officer, Leo Lawson wants is to ask out the sweetest jam-maker he’s ever known, Mona Reilly. And it’s finally time. But when the budding couple enjoys a picnic at Magnolia Falls, they discover a dog in distress. As the dog leads them to a body, Leo knows that the dog is the key to getting the girl—and uncovering the murderer. Despite the coupon clippers' last attempt with tampering with official police business, they are once again on the case. Struggling, Leo is torn between finding the dog a home and letting the scruffy mutt use his charm to win over Mona. But one thing is certain: the dog knows more than he’s saying.


Murder and Marinara

Murder and Marinara

Author: Rosie Genova

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1101627093

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Hit whodunit writer Victoria Rienzi is getting back to her roots by working at her family’s Italian restaurant. But now in between plating pasta and pouring vino, she’ll have to find the secret ingredient in a murder.... When Victoria takes a break from penning her popular mystery series and moves back to the Jersey shore, she imagines sun, sand, and scents of fresh basil and simmering marinara sauce at the family restaurant, the Casa Lido. But her nonna’s recipes aren’t the only things getting stirred up in this Italian kitchen. Their small town is up in arms over plans to film a new reality TV show, and when Victoria serves the show’s pushy producer his last meal, the Casa Lido staff finds itself embroiled in a murder investigation. Victoria wants to find the real killer, but there are as many suspects as tomatoes in her nonna’s garden. Now she’ll have to heat up her sleuthing skills quickly…before someone else gets a plateful of murder. First in a new series! RECIPES INCLUDED!


Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles

Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles

Author: A.L. Herbert

Publisher: Kensington Books

Published: 2015-03-01

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1617731757

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A fast-talking businessman is felled by a frying pan: “Soul food and sassy characters…a feast that will satisfy the appetites of readers.”—Library Journal Welcome to Mahalia’s Sweet Tea—the finest soul food restaurant in Prince George’s County, Maryland. In between preparing her famous cornbread and mashed potatoes so creamy “they’ll make you want to slap your Momma,” owner Halia Watkins is about to dip her spoon into a grisly mystery . . . Halia Watkins has her hands full cooking, hosting, and keeping her boisterous young cousin, Wavonne, from getting too sassy with customers. Having fast-talking entrepreneur Marcus Rand turn up in her kitchen is annoying enough when he’s alive—but finding his dead body face-down on her ceramic tile after hours is much worse. Marcus had his enemies, and the cast iron frying pan beside his corpse suggests that at last, his shady business deals went too far. Halia is desperate to keep Sweet Tea’s name out of the sordid spotlight but her efforts only make Wavonne a prime suspect. Now Halia will have to serve up the real villain—before the killer returns for a second helping . . . Features delicious recipes from Mahalia’s Sweet Tea,including Sour Cream Corn Bread and Sweet Corn Casserole!


Cooking with a Serial Killer Recipes from Dorothea Puente

Cooking with a Serial Killer Recipes from Dorothea Puente

Author: Shane Bugbee

Publisher:

Published: 2004-10-20

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781411615441

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"Grandmotherly Dorthea Puente is becoming as renowned for her cooking as for being a notorious mass murder, serial killer and all around psycho"... THE SUN DORTHEA PUENTE has been accused of a lot of things... being a bad cook isn't one of them. You see, Dorothea ran a boarding house in Sacramento, Ca. and the care she provided was above and beyond other care providers, but one thing everyone involved in this case keyed in on was how awesome ALL of her tenants thought the cooking was... one tenant went as far as saying " Every Dinner at Dorothea's was like Thanksgiving Dinner " NONE OF THEM WERE MURDERED... THEY DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES... I COULDN'T DO THAT ANYHOW, I'M NOT THAT TYPE OF PERSON... I'M TOO CARING AND I WORRY TOO MUCH ABOUT MY PEOPLE EATING... EVERYBODY CAN TELL YOU THAT, WHY WOULD I SPEND MONEY FATTENING THEN UP IF I WAS GOING TO KILL THEM." ... DOROTHEA PUENTE Convicted Killer/Gormet Cook


Slow Cooked Murder

Slow Cooked Murder

Author: Tim Myers

Publisher: Tim Myers

Published: 2017-01-31

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13:

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Brand New Cozy Mystery Series From Tim Myers! New York Times Bestselling Author and Agatha Award Nominee! "Cozy mystery connoisseurs will fall in love with yet another outstanding Tim Myers series. Myers' brilliance is in the atmosphere he creates. Slow Cooked Murder is a fast paced, well-plotted mystery with an engaging heroine." Seattle PI Along with her overprotective family and her cat, Cleo--who also happens to be her landlord--Sarah Jacobs loves slow cooking more than anything else in the world. In Slow Cooked Murder, a student is killed after one of Sarah’s slow cooker classes at the community college. She and several of her students quickly become suspects, and Sarah must fight to uncover the killer and prove their innocence. Recipes included in each book!


Murder by Devil's Food

Murder by Devil's Food

Author: Joanne Pence

Publisher: Quail Hill Publishing

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13:

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As culinary queen Angie Amalfi-Smith starts a new phase of her life with a husband and a home to call her own, one long-time problem still plagues her: finding a job, or business, or service, or anything that will make her feel as if her days are productive as well as rewarding. When she stumbles upon a fresh idea for a livelihood with her best friend, Connie Rogers, her culinary prospects begin looking up. But no sooner does she think that, than her exciting new career takes a dangerous turn. Someone is obsessed with destroying it. And now, with Satanic revelers, snarky sisters, suspicious friends, and possibly a serial killer on the loose, Angie wonders if, this time, her goose may be cooked … for good. NOTE: For original Angie Amalfi mystery readers, this is a major rewrite (including "whodunnit" although some scenes will be familiar) of the mystery previously published as BELL, COOK & CANDLE. "Angie Amalfi is the Queen of the Culinary Sleuths"--RT Book Reviews