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Casey Costello, chef for a morning news show, dumps her two-timing lover and immediately swears off men. Resisting her father’s advice to “fall madly in love,” Casey doesn’t respond to overtures from Danny, the sexy Irish chef who shows up to make an appearance on her show. Casey submerges her feelings, but then the persistent Danny takes her by surprise.

Sent to occupied Naples in 1943 to dissuade Allied officers from marrying their Italian girlfriends, British officer James Gould suffers from a limited menu of fried Spam fritters and warmed-up rations, until a beautiful country girl joins the officers’ staff as a cook.

Rescued during a break-in by an unlikely hit man who has been directed by the mob to protect her, food writer Agnes Crandall finds her situation further complicated by a missing cache of money that becomes a key factor in a Southern mafia wedding.

When caterer Goldy Schulz stumbles upon a dead paralegal while on her latest catering job at a local law firm, she does her own snooping to find the killer, at the behest of the victim’s mother, and is soon knee-deep in suspects.

Catering a holiday breakfast for the local library staff, Goldy Schultz is shocked to see a supposedly dead woman who is believed to be Goldy’s ex-husband’s killer, an encounter that precedes the murder of a high-end map dealer.

Tilo, an Indian clairvoyant, becomes queen of the pirates who kidnapped her for her powers, and she gains immortality and the skills of a mistress of spices, which she uses to help mortals before falling in love with Raven.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Tita, the youngest of three daughters, is expected to serve her mother for the rest of her life, but in order to show her love to Pedro, who is engaged to her sister, Tita cooks for him.

Food columnist Carolyn Blue’s much anticipated gourmet cruise aboard the luxury liner Bountiful Feast to the Canary Islands does not turn out the way she had expected, thanks to the presence of her mother-in-law, the disappearance of a female passenger, and the discovery of a corpse on board the ship.

While getting ready to judge the baking contest at the local town fair, Hannah Swensen stumbles upon the dead body of a fellow judge, along with a smashed key lime pie.

When Larry Jaeger, the owner of the Crazy Elf Christmas Tree Lot, is murdered, bakery owner Hannah Swensen, during the busiest time of the year, must sift through a wealth of suspects before a murderous Scrooge strikes again.

Hired as the personal chef to the governor of New Mexico, Greenie Duquette leaves behind her Greenwich Village pastry business and her husband to head west with her four-year-old son, prompting a period of upheaval and reflection for herself.

When the beautiful and mysterious Vianne moves to Lansquenet and opens a chocolate shop across from the church, the inhabitants of the tiny village find themselves torn between the solemn law of religion and the joyful rewards of Vianne’s confections.

When her husband leaves her for another woman, Wynter Morrison moves to Seattle to start a new life and pursues her passion for breadmaking by accepting a position in a local bake shop, where she discovers the extraordinary healing power of making bread.

Five women, working together to create a church cookbook, share their passions, loves, and losses, including pastor Charlotte Stewart, who is suffering a crisis in faith ; widow Margaret, the town confidante; and Jessie, the only African American in an all-white church.

Eden Douglass’s talent for and love of cooking mark the milestones of her life, from growing up in a quarrelsome family, to her adventures in war-torn Europe, to the post-war boom years and her marriage to filmmaker Matt March, feeding her family at baptisms, weddings, funerals, and celebrations, in a novel complemented by twenty-seven delicious recipes.

P.I. Savannah Reid learns that you can never be too rich, too thin, or too twisted when her boss, the newly svelte actress Dona Papalardo, becomes the target of a very determined killer who is desperate for fifteen minutes of fame.

When Lucy Stone stumbles upon the dead body of Mimi, the annoying and whiny wife of local developer Fred Stanton, she launches her own investigation into the murder, a quest that makes the killer nervous and results in threatening notes.

Struggling to get back on her feet in the wake of her husband’s premature death and stunned by a paternity suit against her husband’s estate, food writer Maggie McElroy plans a trip to China to investigate the claim and to profile rising chef Sam Liang.

When Katy Collins buys a “B&B” on eBay, she, her son, and her sister arrive only to discover that “B&B” actually stands for “Bait and BBQ,” and once the place is up and running smoothly, Katy’s trouble making ex-husband arrives.

When eligible bachelor Cornelius Weaver suffers a heart attack while in bed with another woman just days before his wedding to Priscilla Livingood, and it is revealed that there may have been foul play, Madgalena Yoder must uncover the truth.

Three families of Indian-American women find themselves dealing with whole new world that blends the traditions of the past with high-tech, fast-paced, modern American life, until the estranged daughter of one of the women returns to request that a marriage be arranged for her, forcing them all to deal with the experience of living between cultures.

In a novel set in modern Sicily, a librarian who has suffered heartbreak is drawn to a charismatic English chef through their shared love of cooking.

Uncertain about the future after her marriage to Dan, Tressa, a sophisticated, successful woman in her late thirties, discovers the ingredients of marital happiness in the journals and recipes of her grandmother Bernadine.

Ruth draws on her talent for concocting delectable cakes and desserts when her family begins to disintegrate around her—her husband loses his job, her mother moves in, and her long-estranged father shows up at the door with no place to go.

In a small town in Texas in the 1960s, young Roxanne journeys toward adulthood as she copes with a pie-baking contest that becomes a lesson in racial politics, a crush on the new female postal worker, and the death of her father and her mother’s remarriage, in a novel that features recipes following each chapter.

Considering whether he will accompany his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to America, a personal cook remembers his youth in French-colonized Vietnam and his days cooking for the doyennes of the Lost Generation.