BOOKS
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Gourmet cook, sometime
food columnist, sometime restaurant critic, and generally "underemployed"
person Angelina Amalfi burst upon the mystery scene in SOMETHING'S
COOKING, in which she met San Francisco Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith. Since that
time she's wanted two things in life, a good job...and Paavo. Combining mystery with humor, romance and food, in the
first book in the series Angie has a food column in a small time
newspaper, and when one of her recipe contributors is killed, Angie finds herself next on
the murderer's menu. In the second, TOO MANY COOKS Angie's new job
behind-the-scenes at a radio talk show run by a pompous cook and restaurant owner plunges
her into the middle of a series of murders of some of San Francisco's classiest
restaurateurs. COOKING UP TROUBLE sends Angie on a week-long,
working vacation at an inn on the northern California coast to hone her culinary skills
and spend a time with Paavo away from the distractions of his job. Little does she know
the inn is populated with food fanatics, ghosts, New Agers, and a murderer. COOKING MOST DEADLY the fourth book in the series, deals with a serial
killer, a Faberge egg aficionado, and a modern-day gang that couldn't shoot
straight. COOK'S NIGHT OUT had Angie making her culinary name
by creating the perfect chocolate confection--"the angelina," while Paavo was in
a life and death struggle for his good name, his reputation, and his life. In the sixth
book, COOKS OVERBOARD, Angie and Paavo go on a cruise...sort of, and
in A COOK IN TIME, Angie faces UFO fanatics...and even a few little
green men. Just what do aliens eat? Find out!
Things get serious in TO
CATCH A COOK, when Paavo is forced to investigate his own background, and finally
learns who his parents are. The fun turns demonic and Angie has to worry about becoming
devil's food "of a different kind" in BELL, COOK, AND CANDLE.
And, most recently, Angie turns to love as she decides it's time to help her best
friend, Connie, find the "man of her dreams" in IF COOKS
COULD KILL. TWO COOKS A-KILLING has Angie helping out at a soap
opera's Christmas reunion special with deadly results, and it's neighbor Stan's turn for
love in COURTING DISASTER.
Angie and Paavo travel to
Arizona where they find RED HOT MURDER, and if that weren't enough,
Angie jets off to Rome to help her sister in THE DA
VINCI COOK. |
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