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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Sherry Frazzelle is back to being Sherry Oliveri, her divorce all but final and her new life in full swing. Her part-time job is helping her father with his hooked-rug business, and her full-time passion is competitive cooking. But murder is about to rock their little Connecticut town . . ."--Amazon.com.
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English
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It's a recipe for disaster when bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright is asked to restore an antique cookbook. Brooklyn has always been a little obsessed with food, but it was her sister Savannah who became a chef, graduating from the prestigious Cordon Bleu school in Paris. She and her classmates all went on to successful careers, but none of them achieved culinary superstardom like Savannah's ex-boyfriend Baxter Cromwell. When Baxter invites the old gang...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Returning home to Pennywhistle, Tennessee, for her beloved daddy's funeral, PJ Spoon, abandoning her PhD program at Vanderbilt, impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at the Chickie Shak, where she meets and falls for Boof, a talented singer-songwriter searching for her birth mother.
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Mahalia's Sweet Tea boasts the most flavorful soul food in all of Prince George's county, Maryland. But as events at the beauty industry's leading trade show turn ugly, owner Halia Watkins needs to bite into an unsavory new item on the menu--murder!
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Series
Kitchen witch mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When tea shop owner and local coven member Mahogany Medford asks her to look into her mother's untimely death, caterer and witchcraft trainee Mia stirs the pot as she, with Gran's protective stone and a circle of trusted confidants, seeks to find the truth"--
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"Lumi Santana is a chef with a gift: she can perceive a person's emotions by tasting their cooking. Despite being raised by a mother who taught her that dreams and true love were silly fairy tales, she puts her heart and savings into opening her own fusion restaurant in Upper Manhattan. The restaurant offers a mix of the Dominican cuisine she grew up with and other world cuisines she is inspired by. When her eclectic venture fails, she is forced to...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Preparing for an important state dinner, White House executive chef Olivia Paras discovers that the President's life is in danger, while her fiancé discovers that his friend's murder is linked to the recent death of the secretary of defense.
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Chapel Springs romances volume 3
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English
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"Living side-by-side, a fledgling chef and a big-hearted contractor find a delicious attraction. Trouble is, their chemistry could spoil their dreams. Spirited PJ McKinley has the touch when it comes to food. Her dream of opening her own restaurant is just one building short of reality. So when a Chapel Springs resident offers her beloved ancestral home to the applicant with the best plan for the house, PJ believes it's a contest she was meant to...
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Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
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With summer in bloom and tourists afoot, Allie is out walking her pup, Mal, when the curious canine digs up a bone from under a flowering lilac bush. The bone leads to a toe that's missing a body. For the successful confectionaire it's only the first in a series of sour events in the middle of the island's Lilac Fest. When her stint on a cooking reality show swirls up a trail of foul play, Allie will have to outwit a cunning killer if she wants to...
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Harlequin Enterprises, ULC
Pub. Date
[2022].
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English
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One impetuous, slightly drunken kiss has turned up the heat on chef Amar Virani's feelings for Divya Shah. He's been in love with the sexy pastry chef--his sister's best friend!--since they were teenagers, but a painful tragedy in his past keeps Amar from revealing his true emotions. As they work side by side in Divya's tiny food truck, she realizes there's more than just business simmering between them. For the first time, she's tempted to step outside...
77) Hail to the chef
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Series
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
White House executive chef Ollie Paras has to put her own interests on the back burner when a kindly electrician is electrocuted to death, and the First Ladys nephew dies in an apparent suicide less than 24 hours after cleaning shrimp with Ollie. Ollie suspects something fishy is going on. Shell have to watch her backand find a killer unlikely to be pardoned.
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Emergency Dessert Squad mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Emergency Dessert Squad business is booming, with owner and baker Winnie Johnson working overtime to satisfy the emergency cravings of Silver Lake, Ohio. Her latest order, a plate of motivational desserts for an artists retreat, is just what she needs to keep her mind off her own relationship woes. But Winnie s problems seem like trifles when she discovers the body of retreat owner Sally Dearfield mere inches away from five oh-so-eccentric and...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With Old Town's DIY Home Decorating Festival in full swing, Sophie's swamped, juggling a bumper crop of artisans, antique dealers, and decorators for the busy street fair. Still, when her best friend Nina suddenly needs a ride from the airport, Sophie is happy to help ... until she sees Nina disembarking in a state of disarray. It's obvious the trip to Portugal soured somewhere along the way. But after one of Nina's traveling companions turns up...
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Series
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Leaving her home in Gracious Grove behind her, Rose is off to the annual convention of the International Teapot Collectors Society. Her granddaughter, Sophie, is minding the tea house while she's away. Rose is eager for tough cookie Zunia Pettigrew to appraise a prized antique teapot she believes may be a holy water vessel from China. But when Zunia declares the pot a fake, Rose is really steamed. After Zunia is found dead beside Rose's dinged-in...
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