Download or read book The Culinary Art of Murder written by Heather Haven and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee's Uncle Tío is smitten with the lady guest chef at a Silicon Valley culinary art institute. When she is arrested for the murders of both a fellow chef and a dishwasher, a reluctant Lee agrees to help find the real killer. But under- cover work at the institute proves to be fraught with more problems than a falling chocolate soufflé. And the killer isn¿t done yet. Someone wants our sleuth out of the way. Permanently. With secrets as plentiful as sauces, can Lee find the killer before her own goose is cooked? If it turns out to be the ambitious southern belle chef, will Tío ever forgive Lee for sending his new lady love to jail?
Download or read book A Sprinkling of Murder written by Daryl Wood Gerber and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an excerpt from the next book in the series, A glimmer of a clue.
Download or read book Murder as a Fine Art written by David Morrell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artist of death is stalking Victorian London, recreating earlier masterpieces of murder. Police suspicion falls on the notorious 'opium-eater' Thomas De Quincey, recently returned to the capital, who wrote in detail about the original crimes. Someone is using his essays as inspiration - and he must uncover the truth before the killer completes his work. In MURDER AS A FINE ART, London becomes a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer - whose lives are linked by secrets long buried, but never forgotten.
Download or read book Cooking Up Murder written by Miranda Bliss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Annie Capshaw and her best friend Eve take a gourmet cooking class together, they discover that murder is on the menu when a mysterious man is found dead in the parking lot after arguing with a fellow student, causing this case to come to a boil as they get closer to the truth. Original.
Download or read book Prepared for Murder written by Cecile Lamalle and published by Thomas T. Beeler Publisher. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A culinary mystery with recipes.
Download or read book The Cooking School Murders written by Virginia Rich and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murder in the Kitchen written by Alice B. Toklas and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir-turned-cookbook, Alice B. Toklas describes her life with partner Gertrude Stein and their famed Paris salon, which entertained the great avant-garde and literary figures of their day. With dry wit and characteristic understatement Toklas ponders the ethics of killing a carp in her kitchen before stuffing it with chestnuts; decorating a fish to amuse Picasso at lunch; and travelling across France during the First World War in an old delivery truck, gathering local recipes along the way. She includes a friend's playful recipe for 'Haschiche Fudge', which promises 'brilliant storms of laughter and ecstatic reveries', much like her book.
Download or read book The Art of Killing Well written by Marco Malvaldi and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing could please a chef more than a chance to learn the secrets of a Baron's castle kitchen. Having travelled the length and breadth of the country compiling his masterpiece, The Science of Cooking and The Art of Eating Well, Pellegrino Artusi relishes the prospect of a few quiet days and a boar hunt in the Tuscan hills. But his peace is short-lived. A body is found in the castle cellar, and the local inspector finds himself baffled by an eccentric array of aristocratic suspects. When the baron himself becomes the target of a second murder attempt, Artusi realises he may need to follow his infallible nose to help find the culprit. Marco Malvaldi serves up an irresistible dish spiced with mischief and intrigue, and sweetened with classical elegance and wit. His stroke of genius is to bring Italy's first cookery writer to life in this most entertaining of murder mysteries.
Download or read book A Critical Study of Female Culinary Detective Stories written by Nieves Pascual Soler and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is one of the very few academic works to investigate cooking as a prime category of detection. It examines how cooking and eating transform the identity of the detective, the nature of the crime, the space of mystery, the time of fiction, and even our engagement with the text.
Download or read book Hot Dish Heaven written by Jeanne Cooney and published by North Star Press of St. Cloud. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporter Emerald Malloy returns to Minnesota's Red River Valley to gather more recipes for an encore feature the Minneapolis newspaper plans to run on rural cooking. Her plans are interrupted by the murder of a farmhand. When someone close to Margie is arrested for the murder, Emerald must investigate to discover the real killer. -- Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Cream Caramel and Murder written by K E O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet treats, revenge, and murder. I'm in so much trouble. I can't think about baking cream caramel treats for the delectable Lord Rupert Audley, not after Meatball, my adorable dog, found a hand sticking out of the ground! And that hand is attached to a body. A very dead body. A body that didn't die from natural causes. Things get stickier than a currant bun when I become number one on the suspect list for this murder. How did that happen? I'm a baker, a history buff, a lover of all things fluffy. I'm no killer. Should I stay? Make a run for it? Risk everything? If I don't clear my name, I'll lose my amazing life in the beautiful Audley St. Mary, my dog will go to the animal shelter, and I'll end up like an overdone fruit cake no one wants to touch. *** Welcome to this culinary mystery series, full of desserts, murder, and puzzles. Meet baker, Holly Holmes, and a cast of fun characters who'll entertain you. Enjoy mystery and friendship as you indulge in this delicious read. This is a clean, cozy culinary mystery with only a small amount of peril and danger. The killer always gets their just desserts!
Download or read book Murder at the John Wornall House Museum written by Ruthie Wornall and published by . This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murder by Devil s Food written by Joanne Pence and published by Quail Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As culinary queen Angie Amalfi-Smith starts a new phase of her life with a husband and a home to call her own, one long-time problem still plagues her: finding a job, or business, or service, or anything that will make her feel as if her days are productive as well as rewarding. When she stumbles upon a fresh idea for a livelihood with her best friend, Connie Rogers, her culinary prospects begin looking up. But no sooner does she think that, than her exciting new career takes a dangerous turn. Someone is obsessed with destroying it. And now, with Satanic revelers, snarky sisters, suspicious friends, and possibly a serial killer on the loose, Angie wonders if, this time, her goose may be cooked … for good. NOTE: For original Angie Amalfi mystery readers, this is a major rewrite (including "whodunnit" although some scenes will be familiar) of the mystery previously published as BELL, COOK & CANDLE. "Angie Amalfi is the Queen of the Culinary Sleuths"--RT Book Reviews
Download or read book Murder on the Menu written by Miranda Bliss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best friends Annie and Eve know the bare bones of both culinary school and amateur sleuthing. Now they’re in the trenches, struggling to keep a new restaurant, Bellywasher’s, from going belly up… Annie and Eve have joined their former cooking teacher, Jim—who doubles as Annie’s on-again, off-again boyfriend—in running his new restaurant, Bellywasher’s. Bombshell Eve is the hostess, while Annie stays behind the scenes, frantically managing everything from the books to the radicchio supply. Then a rave review makes the spot an instant success, drawing Washington’s high-powered elite to sample Jim’s cooking…people with both money and secrets to burn. Everything’s simmering along just fine until Annie and Eve find their friend Sarah, staffer to a powerful Congressman, lying dead in her tub. The cops want to write it off as a suicide, but the girls notice that, like Annie’s invoices, the facts just don’t add up. Then, after a series of suspicious “accidents” that come dangerously close to taking the girls permanently out of commission, Annie and Eve realize that this kitchen fire isn’t about to put itself out…
Download or read book Appetite for Murder written by Cecile Lamalle and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FUNGUS AMONG US While foraging for fungi in his secret spot, Charly Poisson, owner and chef of La Fermette, inadvertently unearths more than the oyster mushrooms he enjoys on his breakfast toast. Someone, apparently, has had the bad taste to bury an Hermes scarf in the hummus -- with a woman still attached! Mon Dieu! Now, plagued by a series of mysterious barn burnings and a psychotic killer on the loose, a once-sleepy upstate New York town has suddenly become a bubbling hot compote of danger and intrigue. Does the blood-hungry murderer lurk among Charly's quirky, epicurean clientele? Worse yet, do the police intend to put the case on the back burner? Add to the mix one chubby French chef with a dangerous craving to solve the crime, rumors of mob ties, age-old vendettas, and a melange of motives that make almost everyone a suspect. Stir the pot vigorously and heat to serve...
Download or read book Cooked to Death More Tales of Crime and Cookery Volume II Lying on a Plate written by Rhonda Gilliland and published by Wise Ink. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovers wage war with deviled eggs and artichokes. A world-class baker turns to desperate measures to win the contest of a lifetime. An orphaned teenage girl with nowhere left to go finally takes a stand inside a farmhouse kitchen. Lawyers, financiers, and law enforcement turn to the culinary arts to defend their careers and solve their cases. All these and more can be found within the pages of the second volume of the Cooked to Death series. Fifteen mystery writers have pooled their literary powers and culinary acumen to craft a five-course meal full of surprises both deadly and delicious. And if the crimes uncovered by these sleuths are too much for your stomach, they've got the perfect thing to restore your appetite: each story is followed by an easy-to-make recipe that plays some crucial part in its preceding tale. The game is afoot, and the burners are alit! Enter if you dare-and make sure to bring a fork. Book jacket.
Download or read book Murder on the Menu written by Miranda Bliss and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
