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Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the car accident that ended her career as a cookbook publicist, Val Deniston has traded in the chaos of New York City for a quieter life near the Chesapeake Bay. Living with her curmudgeonly grandfather in the tourist town of Bayport is hardly glamorous, but she enjoys working at the Cool Down Cafe at the local fitness club, and she finally has time to work on her long-planned cookbook. But when one of the club's patrons is found dead,...
82) Cheddar off dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Christmas holidays are one of Lilah{u2019}s favorite times of the year, filled with friends, family, and, of course, tons of food orders for her covered dish clients. But Lilah{u2019}s Yuletide cheer ends when she sees a most Grinch-like crime: the murder of a Santa in a school parking lot. It turns out the deceased Kris Kringle was a complicated tangle of naughty and nice, with a long list of people who might have wanted him dead. And whoever...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Domestic Diva Sophie Winston is in charge of the sweetest event in Old Town this summer. Amore Chocolates is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with a chocolate tasting at the mansion of the company's CEO, Joe Merano, and Sophie is running the show. With cookies, candy, and five kinds of chocolate cake, it's a chocolate lover's dream! But when Joe goes missing, the celebration becomes bittersweet. And when Sophie discovers the body of a competing...
Author
Series
Emergency Dessert Squad mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Baker Winnie Johnson does her best work when the heat is on. As owner of the Emergency Dessert Squad, she has a deft touch in the kitchen and a soft spot for lost causes. So when her business professor beau Jay Morgan expresses misgivings over having to fail one of his fourth-year students, Winnie cooks up a sweet solution. She'll offer an extra credit opportunity in exchange for a little help with her growing business. But when her protégé's first...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Old Town's midsummer festivities are getting a tasty addition this year. To coincide with a public performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Bobbie Sue Bodoin, the Queen of Cheesecake, has hired Sophie to organize a dinner with a dessert buffet on the waterfront. Bobbie Sue's homegrown company is thriving, and since her baking dish overfloweth, she wants to reward her employees. Bobbie Sue has only one menu demand: no cheesecake!...
Author
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Amy will do anything to revive her ailing restaurant, including hiring a former reality-show finalist with good connections and a lot to prove. But her hopes that Sophie's skills and celebrity status would bring her restaurant back from the brink of failure are beginning to wane... Sophie just wants to cook. She doesn't want to constantly post on social media for her dead-in-the-water reality TV career, she doesn't want to deal with Amy's take-charge...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Six months after her husband Dylan's death, Tessa Esposito is prepping for the grand opening of her new Italian restaurant, Anything's Pastable. Meanwhile her cousin Gabby is trying to increase traffic at her new bookstore. So when New York Times bestselling author, Preston Rigotta, agrees to a book signing, Tessa offers to lend a hand, catering a variety of sweet Italian treats for the occasion. But the signing soon takes a bitter turn when Preston's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Nothing heats up Old Town quite like the annual Pie Festival, and this year is no exception, especially since Sophie's professional rival, Natasha Smith, is barred from participating. Sophie has been asked to oversee the pie eating contest. But when celebrity judge, Patsy Lee Presley, host of television's most popular cooking show, bites the crust during the competition, Sophie's friends are suspected of the crime. As the folks of Old Town dish, it...
90) Cater to you
Author
Publisher
Strebor Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Riley Ryan is an up-and-coming personal chef hired to cater a retirement party for Louis and Miriam Carlyle. The Carlyles are so impressed with her skills, they hire Riley to be their chef on a weekly basis. Every Sunday, the couple is joined for dinner by their four sons--all successful, all handsome, and all intrigued by Riley. Already in a strained relationship, Riley doesn't believe in confusing her personal life with her professional life and...
91) Murphy's slaw
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Cooke loves many things, like the Bear Claw Diner, the heated steering wheel of her car, and her orange tabby cat Eggs Benedict. Something she has never loved is the state fair. So when her best friend Annie Jensen begs her for a fair day, she's reluctant. But Annie isn't the only one who wants her to spend a day among farm animals and deep fried food. A vendor has been murdered, and Trooper Graham needs his favorite part-time sleuth to dig...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Two weeks of carnival celebrations has got Zoe running ragged. By day, she charms hungry tourists with authentic Southern cuisine. At night, she accompanies her father to one masquerade ball after another, hobnobbing with the high rollers of the secret cabal known as the Mistics of Time. But the fun turns frightening when Zoe stumbles across "Death{u2019}s" dead body. Journalist Jordan Phillips attended the Mistics{u2019} latest bash in a traditional...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sophie never considered ghostwriting as a side gig, until former actress and aspiring lifestyle guru, Tilly Stratford, trophy wife of Wesley Winthrope, needs someone to write her celebrity cookbook. Sophie agrees, hoping she'll earn enough bread on this assignment to finish her bathroom renovations. But as it turns out, Sophie isn't the first foodie to get a taste for recipe ghostwriting, and if the marginalia are any indication, this project could...
Author
Series
Emergency Dessert Squad mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
With her rent rising faster than her pie crust, bakery owner Winnie Johnson had hoped to be rescued by an inheritance from her wealthy friend and neighbor Gertrude Redenbacher. Instead all she inherits is the widow's hostile hissing tabby, Lovey, and a vintage ambulance, restored by Gertrude's late husband. As her dream crumbles, Winnie makes her final delivery, a peach pie to an elderly widower. But she finds Bart Wagner lying on his kitchen floor,...
95) Italian iced
Author
Series
Ethnic eats mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Laurel Inwood features Italian cuisine on the Terminal at the Tracks menu, she knows she'll need to stock the shelves, the fridge, and the freezer with plenty of wonderful delicacies. She just never expected one of them to be her former employer, Hollywood superstar Megan Cohan. And one day, when Laurel is at the the restaurant early to get ready for the regular rush of customers, that's exactly what she finds - Meghan dead in the Terminal freezer....
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work in Queen Victoria's royal kitchen, setting off a suspenseful, historical mystery ... Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella's hand. It's an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the constrictions of her life as...
97) The big chili
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English
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"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
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Its a cold January in the Chesapeake Bay area, but Cool Down Café manager Val Deniston has plenty to sweat overlike catering a book club event, testing recipes for her Granddads cookbook, and catching the author of a deadly tale of murder. . .The last thing Val needs in her life is an unsolved murder, especially when the victim, an actor famed for impersonating Edgar Allan Poe, happens to be dressed exactly like her Granddad. To keep an eye on Granddad,...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Annie Sharpe's spark for life has fizzled out. Her kids are grown up, her restaurant is doing just fine on its own, and her twenty-six-year marriage has come to an unceremonious end. Untethered for the first time in her adult life, she finds a winter guardian position in a historic seaside home and decides to leave her city life behind for a brand-new beginning. When she arrives in Willow Bay, Annie is enamored by the charming house, the invigorating...
Author
Series
Sophie Valroux novels volume 1
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A disgraced chef rediscovers her passion for food and her roots in this stunning novel rich in culture and full of delectable recipes. French-born American chef Sophie Valroux had one dream: to be part of the 1% of female chefs running a Michelin-starred restaurant. From spending summers with her grandmother, who taught her the power of cooking and food, to attending the Culinary Institute of America, Sophie finds herself on the cusp of getting everything...
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