Restaurant Mysteries

Poppy McAllister is happy about opening a Jersey Shore B&B - but working in a professional kitchen has always been her real dream. Now it's coming true, at least briefly, as she teams up during the high-profile Restaurant Week challenge. Poppy's specialty is pastries, and if anyone can make glorious gluten-free goodies, it's Poppy. Things get heated quickly. Relatively harmless pranks soon escalate into real hazards, including an exploding deep fryer. And now one of the judges has died after taking a bite of Poppy's cannoli - making her the chef suspect.

We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps find them . . . Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as “food detectives,”...

“Listeners will be entertained by narrator Karen Chilton's performance of this deliciously devious novel set at Essie's Soul Food Cafe on the South Side of Chicago.”—AudioFile A sparkling debut mystery set on the south side of Chicago, featuring the quick-witted, unforgettable Savvy...

One dead garden coordinator. One routine herb pickup. And a crime someone is desperate to pass off as an accident. Fiona Firth stops by Seacliff Springs’ community garden every Tuesday morning for fresh herbs. Finding Clara Pemberton dead among the rosemary beds turns a familiar routine into a nightmare. The explanation is convenient. A fall. An accident. Case closed. But the garden tells a different story. Missing tools. Broken stems. Disturbed soil. And Clara’s final notes suggest she wasn’t just tending plants. She was closing in on someone who’d been stealing from the garden for...

A missing friend. A seaside town full of secrets. A chef who won’t stop until she uncovers the truth. When a close friend vanishes on the Oregon Coast, restaurateur and former detective Lily Good feels that familiar pull back into sleuthing. By day, Lily keeps The Good Chef humming—chopping, stirring, and serving comfort on a plate. By night, she follows a trail of half-truths, anonymous tips, and small-town whispers that all point to something much bigger than a simple disappearance. As tides shift and loyalties waver, Lily teams up with her detective boyfriend, Lance Phillips, to sift...

Stress-free weekend in Boston... ...not when the woman who owns the business next to yours is murdered. Isabella had planned a stress-free weekend at a small-business conference with her cousins. Instead of learning how to cross-promote her apothecary, she's got another murder to solve. But will the Boston Police Department let her? The obvious suspect is the victim's abusive husband... ...until he comes up with an iron-clad alibi. Even then, Isabella is convinced he's the culprit. But if he’s guilty, why did he call Detective Palmer to help with the investigation? When a second person is...

The next delectable mystery featuring quick-witted, unforgettable Savvy Summers, owner of a soul food café in Chicago. Savvy has her work cut out when an old friend hires her to cater a company luncheon at a nearby office building on Chicago's South Side. Stepping out of her traditional soul...

At Maison Dubois, perfection is the only standard—and failure is never forgiven. Pastry chef Clara Holt has spent a year surviving the pressure cooker of one of the world’s most elite fine-dining restaurants, where every plate must dazzle, every movement is judged, and every service can make or break a career. But when a notorious food critic is found dead in the restaurant’s wine cellar just as Chef Antoine Dubois is reeling from a devastating theft, the glittering facade of culinary excellence begins to crack. Suddenly, Clara is trapped in a nightmare of secrets, rivalries, and ...

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!

A strict, career-minded lawyer, an easygoing flirtatious cowboy, a mysterious disappearance, and a mischievous puppy… Can childhood friends with opposing personalities become more? Back in her small coastal town, divorced and heartbroken lawyer Marina Helms is a fish out of water helping in her mom’s seafood restaurant kitchen. Then Marina lands in hot water when she agrees to help her best friend, Kai Lawrence, find the brother he didn't know he had. She just needs to keep her crush on Kai under wraps until she goes back to her demanding job and lackluster life. A part-time cowboy, ...

The weight of a long-buried secret can haunt a man's present. For Cooper Hudson, a thriving Seattle businessman, his past has returned with a vengeance. Suddenly, the unexpected death of Javier, a college companion from decades ago, is casting a dark shadow over Cooper's prosperous life. Back in those college days, heartbreak and jealousy clouded the air as Cooper's relationship with Juliana ended, only for her to find solace in Javier's arms. Their contentious history, marked by public confrontations, now places Cooper squarely in the crosshairs of a dogged detective, convinced that old ...

FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED! If you've gotten to know Faith Franklin in A Cherry Sinister Murder & The Cheesecake Fake and you're ready for more...IT'S TIME! Join Faith in her 3rd adventure, The Blackmail Flour Trail! How exciting! Faith, Laura & Grandma Bessie have made it to the final round of the Cupcake-Baking Contest! They’ve met, and beaten, some interesting folks along the way and now they’re so close to winning the $50,000 prize they can taste it! But things are about to take a nasty turn. When their competitor for the final round is found murdered, not only does it look like the...

FAITH FRANKLIN IS BACK! If you've gotten to know Faith in the 1st four "Slice of Paradise" stories and you're hungry for more...IT'S TIME! Join her in her 5th adventure, Pecan Flan Murder Plan! It's gonna be "Flan-tastic!" Faith Franklin is over the moon about the grand opening of Paradise Falls, a beautiful nature preserve she’s helped bring to the community. Between the gorgeous surroundings, the friendly people and the majestic animals, nothing could ruin this day! Well, almost nothing. One of the preserve’s staff members has been found murdered, and there seem to be countless leads ...

Angie Turner's restaurant, The County Seat, is conveniently located near a first-class farmers market - so her menu is full of fresh ingredients. But a visiting culinary professor has just had a taste of something very unhealthy.... Angie first meets Daniel Monet at a local mission, where she and her chef-in-training, Hope, are serving barbecued chicken poutine to the homeless. Monet is one of Hope's teachers - but Angie's boyfriend knows him from his youthful days in England. But soon, the bon vivant is no longer vivant.

2 BOOKS FROM THE BESTSELLING SERIES FOR THE PRICE OF 1! OR FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED! ALSO INCLUDES AN OFFER FOR A FREE STORY IN THE SERIES PLUS 2 DELICIOUS RECIPES DIRECTLY FROM THE STORIES! CONTAINS: BOOK 1: A Cherry Sinister Murder Faith Franklin is a dreamer. She dreams of cakes & pies. She dreams of crepes & brownies. And, more than anything, she dreams of making a career of serving her delicious treats to an adoring public. So, when her grandmother calls and asks her to move to Florida to help run her café, she cannot get out of Minnesota fast enough! And before she knows it, she is...

Restaurant Week was supposed to be Pelican Harbor's sweetest week of the year. Five days of tasting menus, harbor lanterns, and Blair Whitcome's legendary crème brûlée anchoring the finale — until a kitchen fire at the Bayou Brasserie kills the town's visiting food critic and turns a celebration into a crime scene. The fire marshal calls it an accident. Blair calls it wrong. The grease trap was clean three weeks ago. The back window was freshly sealed. And the exit was blocked before the fire ever started. What begins as professional instinct — a chef who knows what clean kitchens ...

Cynthia Rose leaves Texas to take over her son's ice cream truck on Maui while he's imprisoned, awaiting trial for a crime he didn't commit. Cynthia doesn't expect to have not one but several mysteries to solve before her son, Nate, and his girlfriend, Harmony, are exonerated and the real perp is brought to justice. Written by Celia Kinsey under the pen name Abby Byne.

Eliza Burton moved to Nueva Vida for a fresh start, and her cozy diner, EB Eats, is finally finding its footing—until customer Peter Trent drops dead after criticizing her poutine. The good news? He wasn’t poisoned. The bad news? He was murdered, and Eliza is the prime suspect. With a past accusation still shadowing her reputation, Eliza refuses to let history repeat itself. Determined to clear her name, she trades in her apron for an investigator’s hat, uncovering a web of secrets that stretch far beyond her diner’s doors. But in a town as small as Nueva Vida, poking around could ...

When a feared food critic comes to Nueva Vida, every chef in town holds their breath. This reviewer has destroyed careers with a single scathing article, and now they're here to pass judgment on the local dining scene. But someone has already delivered their own verdict—served with a final course of poison. The critic is found dead after what should have been a career-making tasting menu, killed by a bitter compound so expertly disguised that only a culinary master could have pulled it off. With every local chef now a suspect—including Eliza's friend Alistair—she's forced to ...

Although it's a soggy start to spring in Wildwood Cove, the weather clears up just in time for the town to host an amateur chef competition. Marley McKinney, owner of the Flip Side pancake house, already signed up to volunteer, and chef Ivan Kaminski is one of the judges. But when Marley visits her landscaper boyfriend Brett at the site of the Victorian mansion that's being restored as the Wildwood Inn, she discovers something else pushing up daisies: human remains.