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Death by Savory Foods March 2019
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Curses, boiled again!
by Shari Randall
Recovering from an injury, prima ballerina Allie Larkin returns home to Mystic Bay where she encourages her Aunt Gully, the owner of the Lazy Mermaid Lobster Shack, to enter her lobster rolls into a televised cooking contest, but when the competition is taken out and foul play is to blame, Allie must catch the culprit before this case boils over.
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Death of a kitchen diva
by Lee Hollis
When a rival food writer is found dead, facedown in a bowl of Hayley's delicious clam chowder, new food writer Hayley Powell, to clear her name, gets into hot water with a killer. Original.
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Death over easy
by Maddie Day
During the annual Brown County Bluegrass Festival, country store and café owner Robbie Jordan must help a group of banjo players clear their names in the murder of a performer with the help of an unexpected partner.
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Dim sum of all fears
by Vivien Chien
While running her parents' noodle shop while they are in Taiwan, dutiful daughter Lana Lee finds herself an Asia Village mystery when the newlyweds who just opened the souvenir store next door turn up dead.
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Fillet of murder
by Linda S. Reilly
Sometimes in this life, you have to fish or cut bait. After walking away from a miserable job and an even worse boyfriend, Talia Marby has no regrets. She’s returned to her hometown and is happy to help her dear friend Bea Lambert by working at Lambert’s Fish & Chips, a cornerstone of a charming shopping plaza designed to resemble an old English village. But not all the shop owners are charming. Phil Turnbull has been pestering Bea to sign a petition against a new store opening up, and his constant badgering is enough to make her want to boil him in oil. When Talia and Bea stumble upon Turnbull murdered in his shop, the police suspect Bea. Now it’s up to Talia to fish around for clues and hook the real killer before her friend has to trade serving food for serving time.
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Rosemary and crime
by 1943- Oust, Gail
When the local chef who agreed to do a cooking demo at the grand opening at her spice shop is found stabbed to death - and her prints are on the knife, Piper Prescott, a transplanted Yankee living in Brandywine Creek, Georgia, enlists the help of her outspoken best friend to prove her innocence.
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Steamed open
by 1953- Ross, Barbara
When a mysterious new neighbor is murdered after blocking access to the beach, cutting off the Snowden Family Clambake’s supply, Julia Snowden must discover who was steamed enough to kill.
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Stowed away
by 1953- Ross, Barbara
When her old prep school rival, Wyatt Jayne, is accused of murdering her billionaire boyfriend, Julia Snowden's efforts to clear Wyatt's name draw her into the private world of the mega-rich, where nothing is what it seems.
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The Calamity Cafe
by 1967- Leeson, Gayle
Aspiring chef and small-town Virginia native Amy Flowers is ready to open her own cafe offering old-fashioned Southern food. But her dream may go up in smoke when someone kills the competition...
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The diva cooks up a storm
by Krista Davis
When a trendy, underground dinner club leaves some guests six-feet-under the table, entertaining professional and amateur sleuth Sophie Winston hopes she has all the right ingredients to put a murderer on ice.
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The whole enchilada
by Diane Mott Davidson
After one of her best friends meets an untimely demise after attending a party she catered, Goldy Schulz must serve up a killer especially when she discovers that she is next on the hit list.
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Bread of the dead
by (Mystery writer) Myers, Ann
Trick or treat-and murder-are on the menu in this first in a new culinary mystery series Life couldn't be sweeter for Tres Amigas Caf ̌chef Rita Lafitte, decorating sugar skulls and taste-testing rich, buttery pan de muerto Although the police deem Victor's death a suicide, Rita knows something is amiss. To uncover the truth, she teams up with her octogenarian boss, Flori, the town's most celebrated snoop. The duo begins to sift through long-buried secrets and to take full measure of duplicitous neighbors, but the clock is ticking and their list of suspects is growing ever longer. Just as the clues get hotter than a New Mexican chili, one of their main suspects winds up dead. Rita fears that the killer is dishing out seconds-and her order might be up.
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