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Sunshine Mackenzie is living the dream, she's a culinary star with millions of fans, a line of #1 bestselling cookbooks, and a devoted husband happy to support her every endeavor. And then she gets hacked. When Sunshine's secrets are revealed, her fall from grace is catastrophic. She loses the husband, her show, the fans, and her apartment. She's forced to return to the childhood home, and the estranged sister, she's tried hard to forget. But what...
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Bancroft Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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The Two-Plate Solution is a satire about reality TV cooking competitions that features a diverse cast of chefs, TV producers, and terrorists-turned-cheftestants! It's fun and a bit wild, but the author takes the characters and the food very seriously.
3) Out to lunch
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Jenna has lost her best friend. With Aimee gone so tragically young, Jenna barely knows where to turn. Aimee was the one who always knew what to do{u2014}not to mention what to wear. The two built a catering company together and had so much in common{u2014}well, except their taste in men. Jenna never understood what the successful, sophisticated Aimee saw in Wayne, with his Star Wars obsession and harebrained business schemes.
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"Four women who work on a popular cooking show band together when they discover the youngest member of their group has an abusive boyfriend. The Barefoot Contessa meets Big Little Lies in this drama-filled novel about the power of female friendships."--
Celebrity cooking show host Marni McGuire has seen it all. She's been married-twice-and widowed and divorced. Now in her midfifties, she's single. Happily so. She just needs to convince her pregnant...
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An emotional, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it. Celebrity chef Deacon Rowe is struggling with addiction, depression and not one, but two scandals. As summer nears, he travels to the idyllic Eastern bluff of Nantucket, where he takes his own life. In the shocking wake of Deacon's suicide, his first wife and childhood sweetheart, Laurel Rowe,...
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2020.
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English
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"Braden Mack has read so many romance novels that he's confident he's an expert on romance and women. He is wrong. When Liv Papandreas landed a job working at the restaurant of celebrity chef Royce Preston one year ago, she knew she'd have to endure his infamous anger and abusive outbursts for the sake of her career. But when she overhears the man sexually harassing a young hostess at the restaurant, she confronts him and tells the young woman she'll...
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Eva and the residents of Knox Plantation are oozing with excitement over the activities planned for the Farm Family Fare. The weekend event consists of two days of tours, exhibitions, music, tastings, and, most importantly, cooking demonstrations with celebrity chefs from the Chow Network. The enthusiasm, however, begins to dribble away after one of the star chefs goes missing and is later found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck."--(Cover)....
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Pine Mountain novels volume 2
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Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Big city celebrity chef Carly di Matisse flees to the Blue Ridge Mountains to start a new restaurant but gets more than she bargained for when she meets rugged contractor Jackson Carter.
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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When famous chef Augustus Beauvais dies suddenly, he leaves behind four women--an ex-wife, a girlfriend, an estranged daughter, and a stepdaughter--who must grapple with their feelings of anger and loss and find a way to move on with their lives.
Meadow Beauvais has always struggled with the infidelities of her husband, famed chef Augustus Beauvais. Even after his death. His estranged daughter Maya, recently out of rehab, is more unforgiving. Norah,...
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Billy Blessing mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Sequel to the author's mystery debut, "The Morning show murders." Professional chef turned amateur sleuth Billy Blessing finds himself in hot water, when a brutal killing cancels a TV show -- and its host -- during it debut. -- Dust jacket.
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Bromance book club volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"A hacktivist and a cat café owner decode the friend zone in this romantic comedy from the author of Undercover Bromance. Alexis Carlisle and her cat café, ToeBeans, have shot to fame after she came forward as a victim of a celebrity chef's sexual harassment. When a new customer approaches to confide in her, the last thing Alexis expects is for the woman to claim they're sisters. Unsure what to do, Alexis turns to the only man she trusts-her best...
13) Sconed to death
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Cat has a full plate at her Aspen Hills Warm Springs Resort, as a group of aspiring cozy mystery authors arrives for a writer's retreat. The baker Dee Dee Meyer stirs up trouble by filing a false complaint with the health inspector against the B & B - all because she insists Cat's best friend Shauna stole her recipes - Cat marches into the shop to confront her. But Dee Dee's about to have her own batch of trouble. Greyson Finn - a celebrity chef...
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Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The Lights of Sugarberry Cove is a charming, delightful story of family, healing, love, and small town Southern charm by USA Today bestselling author Heather Webber. Sadie Way Scott has been avoiding her family and hometown of Sugarberry Cove, Alabama, since she nearly drowned in the lake just outside her mother's B&B. Eight years later, Sadie is the host of a much-loved show about southern cooking and family, but despite her success, she wonders...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Investigative team Blake and Avery find themselves entangled in a case involving political conflicts, personal vendettas, and England's first celebrity chef. London, 1842. Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London's newest and grandest gentleman's club--a death the club is desperate to hush up. What he soon discovers is a web of rivalries and hatreds, both personal and political, simmering...
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Regalo Press
Pub. Date
[2024].
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English
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"When the CIA approaches celebrity chef Sebastian Pike about using his award-winning food and culture travel show as cover for espionage, the outspoken bad-boy host says no. When they point out how roaming the globe interviewing foodies, heads of state, rock stars, journalists-in-exile, poets, subversives, supermodels -- even the pope -- gives him perfect cover, Pike smiles and says, "F@#! no." They push. Promising it's only one mission. Vowing he...
17) I want you more
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Zibby Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Reeling from her father's death, Zara Pines accepts a ghostwriting gig for celebrity chef Jane Bailey. Jane, star of the wildly popular cooking show 30 Bucks Tops, invites Zara to live in her East Hampton home for the summer. Zara doesn't want to go, but Jane insists. As the two women create Jane's book, their attachment grows stronger. Zara, who's lost and in search of an identity, finds one in the shadow of Jane. She starts wearing Jane's clothes....
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Inspiration Valley, North Carolina, is bubbling with excitement for the Taste of the Town festival, and Lila is right in the middle of it all. Along with her coworkers at the Novel Idea Literary Agency, Lila is organizing a grand celebrity chef event, featuring food television's biggest stars, complete with cooking demonstrations, cookbook giveaways, and even a culinary writing contest. But just as the celebration is about to start, the demo kitchen...
19) Final sentence
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Jenna Hart leaves behind the high-pressure world of advertising and returns home to Crystal Cove, California. Once there she helps an aunt open a culinary book-shop and cafe. She enlists her old college roommate, celebrity chef Desiree Divine to attend the grand opening, but when Desiree turns up dead Jenna will have to read between the lines to catch the killer before another body is served cold.
20) The holiday swap
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"A feel-good, holiday-themed romantic comedy about identical twins who switch lives in the days leading up to Christmas--perfect for fans of Christina Lauren's In a Holidaze and Josie Silver's One Day in December"--
When chef Charlie Goodwin gets hit on the head on the L.A. set of her reality baking show, she loses her ability to taste and smell-- both critical to her success as show judge. Her identical twin, Cass, is frantically trying to hold...
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