By Georges Simenon

By Joanne Pence

After conversing her manner right into a activity on a pompous, third-rate chef's radio call-in-show, Angie Amalfi has visions of a brand new profession to move together with her scorching, new romance with Paavo Smith, a stunning homocide detective.

When a winning and much-envied restauranteur is poisoned besides the fact that, Angie unearths the case way more fascinating than attempting to make her pretentious boss sound reliable. a few chefs may shrink back from this sort of scorching case, yet Angie can take the warmth and remain within the kitchen.

By Jessie Keane

In 1941, combined race Ruby Darke is born right into a kin that appear to hate her, yet why?

While her brothers dive right into a lifetime of gangland violence, Ruby has to paintings of their kinfolk shop. As she blossoms right into a appealing younger lady she crosses paths with aristocrat Cornelius Bray, an opportunity assembly that may swap her lifestyles eternally. while she unearths herself pregnant, after which has twins, she is compelled to offer her young ones away. At that time she vows by no means to belief one other guy again.

As the years cross, Ruby by no means forgets her infants, and because the kinfolk shop becomes a retail empire, Ruby desires her kids again. yet secrets and techniques have been whispered and deals made, and if Ruby desires to remain alive she must overlook the prior, or the previous will get back and kill her.

By Chris Cavender

comfortable cities like trees Ridge, North Carolina--the domestic of Eleanor Swift's delectable pizzeria, A Slice of Delight--don't take good to prima donna celebrities. So not anyone is especially happy while television host and recognized chef Antonio Benet roars into city for a publication signing and manages to insult Eleanor, her deliciously saucy sister Maddie, and everybody else inside of earshot. Insults are something, even though. . .but a chilly dish of homicide is kind of one other. . .

Eleanor is familiar with she's at the menu of suspects who could bury a kitchen knife among the rolling-in-dough chef's shoulders. yet so is Beth, the landlord of the bookstall, who can have a few deep secrets and techniques to dish. Or Benet's own assistant, who rather well could have had it with pampering his blowhard boss. . . and should also have a few pie-in-the-sky objectives of his personal. after which there's the television producer--is it real the crusty chef was once bellowing approximately going to a different community sooner than he reached his untimely expiration date?

together with her freedom--and even her looking-good-for-a-minute-there love life--on the reducing block, Eleanor's obtained a heavily complete plate. the single method out of this mess is a stunning tall order: bring the genuine killer sooner than she reveals a knife in her back.

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By Brett Halliday

Mike Shayne investigates a homicide devoted by means of an amnesiac

Arthur Devlin wakes up so hungover that for a second, he thinks the send is sinking. As he will get his bearings, he realizes the one hurricane is within his personal head—and he isn't on a boat in any respect. the very last thing he recalls is being passed one other drink at his going-away celebration. That used to be twelve days in the past. Devlin has awoken in a sleazy lodge room, wearing a stranger's ratty outfits, with a bump on his brow and a lifeless guy at his toes. the telephone earrings: a lady who calls him Joey asks if he went via with the homicide. Devlin has no selection yet to assert yes.

To discover if he's rather a killer, Devlin hires Mike Shayne. Shayne has twenty-four hours to fill within the gaps of his client's memory—and he'll observe issues that Devlin may particularly remain forgotten.

By Laura Childs

In the newest novel from the New York Times bestselling writer of Scones & Bones, Indigo Tea store proprietor Theodosia Browning reveals herself in sizzling water while a physique surfaces on the grand beginning of Charleston's Neptune Aquarium...

The beginning of the aquarium is a massive Charleston occasion, and Theodosia has been employed to cater the non-public get together to honor dignitaries and big-buck donors. issues are going swimmingly—until Theodosia discovers a physique entangled in a web, drowned in a single of the aquarium's cutting-edge tanks.

To make concerns worse, the sufferer is Theodosia's former boyfriend, Parker Scully. The EMTs imagine Parker's drowning was once an twist of fate, but if Theodosia notices what appear like safeguard wounds on his palms, she realizes that somebody sought after Parker useless. The police aren't partial to her conception, so if she desires Parker's killer dropped at justice, Theodosia should leap into the deep finish and begin her personal investigation...

By Alexander McCall Smith

The sensational 6th installment within the best-selling chronicles of the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie unearths our inquisitive heroine and new mom racing very challenging humans from her past.

Isabel's son, Charlie, is simply eighteen months, yet his social existence is already kicking into excessive equipment, and it's at a party, the place Isabel is approached via Minty Auchterlonie, an previous adversary and now a high-flying financier. Minty, it kind of feels, is having hassle in her own lifestyles, and seeks Isabel's aid. To make issues worse, the something yet peaceful Professor Dove has accused Isabel's magazine of plagiarism. there's additionally the ever-pressing query of the way forward for her courting with Jamie. As continuously, she makes her method towards the guts of every challenge via philosophizing, sleuthing, and downright snooping as merely she will be able to.

By Lawrence Block

Scudder is again, monitoring a killer throughout the alleys of Hell’s Kitchen and mapping the darker areas of the human soul.

Glenn Holtzman sits on best of the realm, gazing the sunlight set from his penthouse… part and hour later he’s simply one other statistic, gunned down in a cell sales space on 11th street. whilst the cartridge casings of the deadly photographs occur on a well known neighborhood Vietnam Vet the full of new york is aware it’s an open and close case. yet no longer Scudder – this Yuppie attorney has skeletons in his closet and Matt can listen them damn.

By Kaitlyn Dunnett

After a knee damage forces specialist Scottish dancer, Liss MacCrimmon to renounce her lifetime of appearing strathspreys, reels, jigs and Highland flings, she returns to her place of origin of Moosetookalook, Maine, the place she runs a Scottish Emporium. With one solved homicide case less than her dance belt, Liss has no inspiration she's approximately to spiral into another...Liss nonetheless misses the lifetime of a qualified dancer with Strathspey, the Scottish dance corporation she belonged to. So she arranges a reception for the troupe whilst they're on journey, entire with a Scottish subject matter that features a new spin at the vintage Scottish Scone. Liss quickly realizes that existence within the crew isn't all satisfied jigs and fancy stepping. Victor Owens, the corporate supervisor, has been making existence depressing for everybody. yet she has no concept how depressing until eventually Victor bites into one in every of Liss' prized cocktail scones, collapses and dies. whilst the police set their points of interest on Liss and her most sensible associates, it's as much as Liss to determine whodunit prior to this culinary killer makes an encore...

By Amy Myers

Grasp Chef at Plum's, the English gentleman's membership, Auguste Didier is decided by no means to play at detective back, untill the day that ladies are allowed into the hallowed portals to monitor the rite of Plum's Passing. A rat is left on a eating desk, dying threats are made and obscene letters are despatched to the doorman. yet homicide at Plum's, most unlikely!