Cooking Up Murder
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 | Adams, Riley | | Delicious and Suspicious | | Lulu Taylor, owner of a Memphis rib eatery, is all aflutter because the Cooking Channel has sent a food scout to check out her down-home specialties for a future show -- when the reporter insults her staff and later turns up poisoned, chaos reigns. |
|  | Allen, Robin | | If You Can’t Stand the Heat | | Flamboyant French Chef Bontecou prepares to help relaunch Markham’s Grille & Cocktails in Austin as his own, but health inspector Poppy Markham, daughter of the previous owner, finds Bontecou stabbed to death before opening night is over. |
|  | Beck, Jessica | | Fatally Frosted | | A local busybody drops dead after eating one of Suzanne Hart’s treats -- a forensic team soon swarms through the Donut Hearts kitchen, and suspects the worst of her -- but with the help of police inspector Bishop and her ex-husband Max, Suzanne hopes to clear her name. |
|  | Bliss, Miranda | | Cooking Up Murder | | Life-long best friends, Annie and Eve, have absolutely nothing in common except a lack of skill in the kitchen, so they sign up for a cooking class at the local gourmet shop -- on the first night, a man seen talking to one of the other participants turns up dead in the parking lot. |
|  | Brady, Jacklyn | | A Sheetcake Named Desire | | New Orleans pastry chef Rita Lucero is out to bake her way to the top, but when she finds her almost-ex-husband killed with a chef’s knife in his back, she becomes suspect number one. |
|  | Campion, Alexander | | The Grave Gourmet | | Capucine LeTellier, an elegant young Parisian police detective, longs for a spectacular case, and gets exactly that when the body of an automobile executive is found in the food cooler of a famous restaurant -- a fortuitous crime scene, as her husband is a food critic. |
|  | Carl, JoAnna | | The Chocolate Cat Caper | | When a high-profile lawyer dies after eating a cat-shaped chocolate laced with cyanide, it’s up to Lee McKinney, working in her aunt’s chocolate business, to find out who, before she and her aunt end up behind not-so-chocolate bars. |
|  | Carter, Sammi | | Chocolate Dipped Death | | Candy shop owner Abby Shaw finds herself trapped in an extremely sticky situation, when poisoned bon-bons end the life of a town trouble-maker. |
|  | Childs, Laura | | Death by Darjeeling | | When a man is poisoned by tea, Theo Browning, owner of a teashop in Charleston’s historic district, is the prime suspect -- now she has to prove her innocence and track down the real killer, before someone else takes their last sip. |
|  | Childs, Laura | | Eggs in Purgatory | | Three Kindred, Tennessee women who’ve lost their husbands (to death, Alzheimer’s, and another woman), find freedom when they open the Cackleberry Club cafe -- but it becomes the scene of a crime when a lawyer dies with a secret on his lips and egg on his face. |
|  | Conant-Park, Jessica | | Steamed | | A boy-crazy 20-something gourmand who lives in Brighton, Mass., thinks she might have found both romantic and gastronomic satisfaction with a foodie she meets online -- but their first date is a bust: he’s a dolt, and he winds up getting stabbed before dessert. |
|  | Coyle, Cleo | | Through the Grinder | | Business is booming at Clare Cosi’s Village Blend, until her female customers start to die -- Lieutenant Quinn is convinced that someone has an axe to grind, and, unfortunately, his prime suspect is the new man in Clare’s life. |
|  | Davidson, Diane Mott | | Catering to Nobody | | Goldy Bear has started her own catering business, to support herself and her son, after divorcing her abusive husband -- while catering a funeral, her ex-father-in-law is poisoned and her business is closed, and she must clear her name to save her business. |
|  | Davis, Krista | | The Dive Runs Out of Thyme | | Event planner Sophie Winston, and lifestyle columnist, TV celebrity Natasha Smith, have been rivals since childhood -- when Sophie discovers a dead P.I. in a dumpster, the police find her name and photo inside the dead man’s car, and suspect her -- but Sophie finds out that Natasha hired him. |
|  | Fluke, Joanne | | Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder | | Returning after her father’s death to her hometown of Lake Eden, Minn., Hannah Swenson opens the Cookie Jar, where much of the town’s gossip percolates along with the strong coffee -- early one morning, she finds the driver of a delivery truck shot dead in the alley behind her shop. |
|  | Greenwood, Kerry | | Earthly Delights | | Larger-than-life Corinna Chapman owns and operates a Melbourne bakery in a building of eccentrics -- when she discovers a half-dead junkie in the alley, the occupants of her building join forces to fight the neighborhood threat. |
|  | Haywood, B. B. | | Town in a Blueberry Jam | | In the seaside village of Cape Willington, Maine, Candy Holliday has an idyllic life tending to the Blueberry Acres farm she runs with her father -- but, when an aging playboy and the newly-crowned Blueberry Queen are killed, she investigates to clear the name of a local handyman. |
|  | Hyzy, Julie A. | | State of the Onion | | Never let them see you sweat, that’s White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras’s motto -- but, she faces challenges aplenty: a heated competition for the upcoming top chef’s job, and the mysterious intruder she stops on the White House lawn with a couple of swift blows from a frying pan. |
|  | Kilpack, Josi S. | | Lemon Tart | | Cooking aficionado turned amateur detective, Sadie Hoffmiller, tries to solve the murder of her beautiful young neighbor -- the single mother of a missing 2-year-old child, who was mysteriously lured from home when a lemon tart was baking in her oven. |
|  | McRae, Cricket | | Lye in Wait | | Coca butter soap, check. Lemon lip balm, check. A dead body? That’s just what Sophie Mae Reynolds finds in her workroom -- the police don’t suspect her, a 30-something widow who makes and sells beauty products, they call it suicide -- but why would a lottery winner kill himself? |
|  | Scott, Michele | | Murder Uncorked | | Nikki, a failed LA actress, is invited to consider a position waitressing in a Napa Valley winery -- when she stumbles over a body, she falls into the role of volunteer sleuth -- after all, she once played a detective on TV. |
|  | Shelton, Paige | | Farm Fresh Murder | | Becca Robins leads a simple life, making jams and preserves on her very own farm -- but, when there’s a murder in her quaint little town, she puts herself in the line of fire to defend her friend’s innocence, and goes from making jam to being in one. |
|  | Washburn, Livia J. | | A Peach of a Murder | | Phyllis Newsom is as sweet as peach pie, except during the Peach Festival, whose blue ribbon has slipped through her fingers more than once -- this year she hopes to knock ’em dead, but never in her wildest dreams did she think her cobbler would actually kill a judge. |
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