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Author
Series
Unforgettable love volume 2
Publisher
Amara, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the Earl of Ambrose, who refused to pay for her catering services due to his scheming mistress, arrives in her small village without his memory, Miss Georgianna Heyford claims he's her long-lost husband in an attempt to get revenge on this spoiled aristocrat.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
While celebrating their anniversary in Italy, amateur sleuth/caterer Faith Fairchild and her husband, the Reverend Tom Fairchild, find murder on the itinerary when a new acquaintance is killed in the Eternal City and someone tries to sabotage her former assistant's new cooking school in Florence.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1992, c1991
Language
English
Description
Only the best people go to Hubbard House to die". So Faith Sibley Fairchild, gourmet caterer-turned-amateur sleuth, is told as she begins to investigate some mysterious doings at a retirement community near the village of Aleford, Massachusetts, where her husband is the local minister. And die they do--in Faith's bouillon, even in her bed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1999], ©1990
Language
English
Description
Faith Sibley is an unlikely candidate to be investigating murder. She moved to a quiet New England town to become a minister's wife. However, when she discovers the body of a girl, the neighborhood tramp, in a church belfry, she cannot resist taking an active role in seeking the identity of the killer.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mia's busy with a full schedule of events at the family business--among them an over-the-top Nativity-themed first birthday party and a Sweet Sixteen for a teen drama queen. But her personal life is even more challenging. Her estranged mother has returned--and her lifelong friend Jamie has discovered a shocking secret about his past. He's so angry that he starts hanging out with Lorenzo, who claims to be his long-lost brother--even after it becomes...
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The Breakfast Club Murder is a fun, food-filled mystery with a rich and diverse cast of oddball characters to keep the reader laughing, crying, and guessing who the killer is. In Hawthorne Park, Connecticut, Lori Corvino doesn't waste time licking her wounds after her ex-husband Rob remarries. She has an unhappy thirteen-year-old daughter to deal with, an invasive vegan mother to keep at bay, and a catering career to bring back to life. Then her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Mia is starting work at Belle View, her father's catering hall, a popular spot for weddings, office parties, and more--despite the planes that occasionally roar overhead on their way to LaGuardia and rattle the crystal chandelier. Soon she's planning a bachelor party for a less-than-gentlemanly groom. But it goes awry when the gigantic cake is wheeled in and a deadly surprise is revealed . . . Since some of her family's associates are on the shady...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The inimitable Faith Fairchild returns in a chilling New England whodunit, inspired by the best Agatha Christie mysteries and with hints of the timeless board game Clue. For most of her adult life, resourceful caterer Faith Fairchild has called the sleepy Massachusetts village of Aleford home. While the native New Yorker has come to know the region well, she isn't familiar with Havencrest, a privileged enclave, until the owner of Rowan House, a secluded...
51) Egg drop dead
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It was supposed to be a fancy, intimate dinner party by the pool. Instead, Lana Lee's first-ever catering event turns into full-course madness when a domestic worker is found dead. Is the party's host Donna Feng, the sweet-and-sour owner of the Asia Village shopping plaza where Ho-Lee is situated, somehow to blame? That's what Lana--whose plate is already plenty full with running the restaurant, pleasing her often-disapproving mother, and fretting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Marygene Brown always figured she'd marry her childhood sweetheart, Alex Myers, not cater his wedding. But the Peach Diner could use the exposure. Most of the island is showing up - although more for the role-playing murder game at the reception than for the widely loathed bridezilla, Lucy Carmichael. Marygene may have to smile through the festivities, but Mama doesn't have to hold her peace - especially since only Marygene can hear her mother's ghost....
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House, and imprint of Cannongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Literary caterer Tish Tarragon's 'heroines of literature' fundraising dinner at St. Jude's Episcopal Church is a resounding success. But as Tish walks through the graveyard to lock up the church hall, she takes a tumble . . . over a dead body. Retired Sheriff Gadsden Carney has been murdered. Not only that, he's lying upon the Honeycutt family plot. Six-year-old Daisy Honeycutt was killed twenty-five years ago in a case that rocked Hobson Glen. Sheriff...
55) Winner cake all
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Dani Sloan is back in another delicious Chef-to-Go mystery!"--
"In the small town of Normalton, IL, there aren't a lot of opportunities for small business owner Dani Sloan to cater big-ticket events. But that's about to change--a client named Yvette Joubert is marrying Franklin Whittaker, the richest guy around, and they want Dani to cater their engagement party! The swanky event is the perfect opportunity to put Dani on the map for wealthier clients....
Author
Series
Daisy's Tea Garden mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Daisy, a widowed mom of two teenagers, is used to feeling protective--so when Iris started dating the wealthy and not-quite-divorced Harvey Fitz, she worried...especially after his bitter ex stormed in and caused a scene at the party Daisy's Tea Garden was catering. Then there was the gossip she overheard about Harvey's grown children being cut out of his will. Daisy didn't want her aunt to wind up with a broken heart--but she never expected Iris...
57) The big chili
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"First in a delicious new mystery series filled with casseroles, confidences, and killers... Lilah Drake's Covered Dish business discreetly provides the residents of Pine Haven, Illinois, with delicious, fresh-cooked meals they can claim they cooked themselves. But when one of her concoctions is used to poison a local woman, Lilah finds herself in a pot-load of trouble"--From the publisher's web site.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Since childhood, Marlo Mayfield has kept a list of traits her Prince Charming must possess. After a series of bad relationships, she's beginning to give up hope that her ideal man exists. Then she caters a party for Jake Hammond, and realizes he could be the man she's been waiting for. There's only one problem: Jake is super wealthy, and Marlo's not sure she fits into his blue-blooded world. But Jake is determined to show her that he just might be...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime on the move, Ivy Snow is an expert in all things temporary--schools, friends, and way too many Mr. Wrongs. Now that she owns a successful taco truck in San Francisco and an apartment to call home, Ivy's reinvented life is on solid ground. And she's guarded against anything that can rock it. Like the realities of a past she's worked hard to cover up. And especially Kel O'Donnell. Too hot not to set off alarms, he screams temporary....
60) A fatal glow
Author
Series
Odessa Jones volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Recently widowed Odessa Jones is sure the exclusive catering job she's scored from wealthy businessman Casey Osborne will propel her catering career into the big leagues. So when Dessa's pesky second sight warns her that Osborne is bad news, she ignores it. She wishes she hadn't when he drops dead at his brunch after sampling her homemade preserves. Osborne's death is declared a homicide. Dessa and the friends who helped her cook are considered suspects......
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