Murder on the Menu

Categories: Mystery & Suspense , Staff Picks , Fiction

Do you love to cook?  Are you always on the lookout for a fantastic new recipe?  Then you might want to peruse the library's listing of recipe websites.  If you prefer reading about food to cooking it (and don't mind a little murder mixed in here and there), then check out the following culinary mysteries:

• Dark Tort--Diane Mott Davidson--Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz tries to solve the mysterious death of Dusty Routt, a promising young paralegal.
• The Flaming Luau of Death--Jerrilyn Farmer--While throwing a bachelorette party in Hawaii for a valued employee, event planner Madeline Bean feels compelled to investigate when a body washes up on the beach.
• Key Lime Pie Murder--Joanne Fluke--When a teacher is found murdered during Lake Eden's bakery contest, Minnesota resident and bakery owner Hannah Swensen once again plays amateur sleuth to unmask a murderer.

• Hell Hath No Curry--Tamar Myers--Pennsylvania innkeeper Magdalena Yoder frets about her upcoming marriage and the murder of the town's lothario.
• The Body in the Ivy--Katherine Hall Page--On a remote island in New England, caterer Faith Fairchild finds herself trapped with eight former college classmates--and a murderer intent on eliminating every single one of them.
• The Da Vinci Cook--Joanne Pence--Chef Angie Amalfi heads to Rome to help clear her realtor sister Caterina of murder.