From bestselling cozy mystery author Jennifer L. Hart comes the deliciously deadly conclusion to her Southern Pasta Shop Mysteries... Redemption never tasted so sweet… Andy Buckland is no stranger to TV. The worst moment of her career happened when a live studio audience got food poisoning from one of her dishes. But when the pasta guru is given a slot in the televised cooking competition Diced Showdown, she sees her chance at redemption. In exchange for the shot at vindication Andy and her fiancé, Malcolm Jones, are tasked to find the identity of a mysterious blogger who has a nasty habit of revealing detrimental secrets of the show’s top celebrity chefs. A little undercover sleuthing is one thing, but when her hometown is taken over by the show’s production and one of the judges winds up dead, Andy’s afraid she’s bitten off more than she can chew, and she might just choke on a dish best served cold. **Recipes included!** Southern Pasta Shop Mysteries: Murder Al Dente – book #1 Murder À La Flambé– book #2 Murder Al Fresco – book #3 Christmas Al Dente – holiday short story What critics are saying about Jennifer L. Hart's books: "A must read for all people who love a good mystery and a jolly good laugh...laugh out loud funny." ~ Black Orchid, Cocktail Reviews "Laugh out loud funny, realistic characters, snappy true to life dialog, and a sufficiently difficult mystery; all the required elements for an excellent read." ~ Manic Readers "I would not hesitate to pick up another of Ms. Hart's works as she definitely made me with one book a lifelong fan." ~ Joyfully Reviewed

It’s up to Sally Solari to serve up a killer before their family restaurant’s reputation goes up in smoke. It’s early autumn in Santa Cruz and restaurateur Sally Solari decides an open-air painting class is the perfect way for her to learn more about Paul Gauguin, the inspiration for the restaurant she has recently inherited. But the beauty of the Monterey Bay coastline is shattered when Sally’s dog Buster sniffs out a corpse tangled up in kelp. The body is identified as Gino, a local fisherman and a regular at Solaris’ until he disappeared after dining there a few nights before. Witnesses claim he left reeling drunk, but his waitress swears the old man only had two beers with is meal. And then the fingers begin to point at Sally’s dad for negligently allowing an inebriated customer to walk home alone at night. From a long menu of suspects, including a cast of colorful characters who frequent the historic Santa Cruz fisherman’s wharf, Sally must serve up the tall order of clearing her father’s name in Death al Fresco, Leslie Karst’s third delectable Sally Solari mystery.

Sally Solari is busy juggling work at her family’s Italian restaurant, Solari’s, and helping Javier plan the autumn menu for the restaurant she’s just inherited, Gauguin. Complicating this already hectic schedule, Sally joins her ex-boyfriend Eric’s chorus, which is performing a newly discovered version of her favorite composition: the Mozart Requiem. But then, at the first rehearsal, a tenor falls to his death on the church courtyard--and his soprano girlfriend is sure it wasn’t an accident. Now Sally's back on another murder case mixed in with a dash of revenge, a pinch of peril, and a suspicious stack of sheet music. And while tensions in the chorus heat up, so does the kitchen at Gauguin--set aflame right as Sally starts getting too close to the truth. Can Sally catch the killer before she’s burnt to a crisp, or will the case grow as cold as yesterday’s leftovers? In a stew of suspects and restaurateurs, trouble boils over in the second in Leslie Karst’s tasty and tantalizing Sally Solari mystery series, A Measure of Murder.

When Love and Murder Collide... From restoring the gardens on a Mobile Bay estate, turned into an artists' colony, to being trapped on an offshore island with a murderer, Carley Burnside, a young landscape architect, discovers that things are not always as they seem. Drawing cards with her identical twin Morgan, for one of two houses in her grandmother's will, Carley also inherits her poker club, her feng shui housekeeper, two Maltese cats, and disturbing family secrets that threaten her life. Switched identities, a smuggling ring, eccentric artists, and a wickedly handsome undercover CIA agent have to be dealt with as Carley struggles to survive the hazardous journey from murderous intent to love in a lush coastal paradise.

Restaurateur Sally Solari has a nose for trouble, but when her sense of smell goes missing, it's not just her career on the line . . . it's her life. Restaurateur Sally Solari is a champion, both in the kitchen and on the case, but after getting mixed up in one too many murders, she's noticed her nonna's friends have now taken to crossing themselves when they see her in the street. Adding to her woes, a sinus infection has knocked out her sense of smell, making cooking on the hot line difficult, indeed. Nevertheless, Sally is determined to stay out of trouble and focus on her work. But then her old acquaintance Neil Lerici is murdered at the annual Santa Cruz Artichoke Cook-Off, and her powers of investigation are called into action once more. Could Neil have been killed by the local restaurant owner who took his winning spot at the competition? Or maybe by one of his siblings, who were desperate to sell the family farm to a real estate developer? Sally plunges headfirst into the case, risking alienating everyone she knows - including the dapper Detective Vargas, who finds her sleuthing both infuriating and endearing. And soon it's not only her restaurant and tentative new relationship that are on the line - it's her life . . . The Fragrance of Death is a non-stop fun cozy mystery that will keep your mind buzzing and your mouth watering, and contains a selection of delicious recipes to cook at home.

Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Max Pemberton collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Novels: The Iron Pirate: A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Captain Black: A Romance of the Nameless Ship The Sea Wolves The Little Huguenot: A Romance of Fountainebleau A Gentleman's Gentleman The Garden of Swords The House Under the Sea: A Romance The Lady Evelyn: A Story of Today Aladdin of London or, Lodestar The Diamond Ship White Motley Swords Reluctant: War and The Woman The Great White Army Short Stories: Jewel Mysteries I Have Known; From a Dealer's Note Book: The Opal of Carmalovitch The Necklace of Green Diamonds The Comedy of the Jewelled Links Treasure of White Creek The Accursed Gems The Watch and the Scimitar The Seven Emeralds The Pursuit of the Topaz The Ripening Rubies My Lady of the Sapphires The Signors of the Night; The Story of Fra Giovanni: The Risen Dead A Sermon for Clowns A Miracle of Bells The Wolf of Cismon The Daughter of Venice Golden Ashes White Wings to the Raven The Haunted Gondola The Man Who Drove the Car: The Room in Black The Silver Wedding In Account with Dolly St. John The Lady Who Looked On The Basket in the Boundary Road The Countess Tales of the Thames: Marygold A Ragged Intruder Barbara of the Bell House The Carousal: A Story of Thanet Jack Smith—Boy The Donnington Affair The Devil To Pay Other Works: Varsity Tales: Undergraduates I have known (Memoirs)

DigiCat presents to you a carefully created collection of Mary Roberts Rinehart's thriller novels and crime stories. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Miss Cornelia Van Gorder Series: The Circular Staircase The Bat Tish Carberry Series: The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry Three Pirates of Penzance That Awful Night Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions Mind over Motor Like a Wolf on the Fold The Simple Lifers Tish's Spy My Country Tish of Thee— More Tish The Cave on Thundercloud Tish Does Her Bit Salvage Novels: The Man in Lower Ten The Window at the White Cat The Case of Jennie Brice The After House K. Long Live the King! The Amazing Interlude The Breaking Point Short Stories: Locked Doors Sight Unseen The Confession The Valley of Oblivion Kings, Queens, and Pawns – Autobiography