Angie Amalfi is close to one of the biggest breaks of her rocky culinary career—a chance to co–write a cookbook with a famous chef. But as she scrambles to prepare for the impending interview, her realtor sister Cat is suddenly accused of a murder in a rich client's home. A priceless relic—an iro...
The heat is onLife's a banquet for Angelina Amalfi—a gourmet chef and food writer with enough sass and spunk for two. But things start to go really bad really fast when the man who's been contributing unusual recipes to her column is discovered dead and Angie suddenly finds herself being stalked ...
Chef Angie Amalfi can't wait to take off from the city for a week to help devise a delicious vegetarian menu for a lovely new B&B in scenic northern California. The not-yet-open-for-business Hill Haven Inn will be the perfect place to take her budding romance with her homicide detective boyfriend...
In this 6th delightful culinary mystery from Joanne Pence, dilettante chef Angie Amalfi plans a romantic cruise with her hunky boyfriend, but hits rough water when murder becomes part of the itinerary. Food writer and culinary entrepreneur Angie Amalfi imagined a high seas cruise aboard a ship b...
Dilettante chef Angie Amalfi doubts if she'll actually survive her engagement to San Francisco homicide detective Paavo Smith, what with her meddling mom micromanaging the whole affair. So Angie leaps at the chance to spend some time away with her fiance in the sun?drenched Arizona desert town wh...
With another failed business behind her, dilettante chef Angie Amalfi is cooking up a new scheme: Pairing up her best friend Connie with a handsome professional football player who just happens to be related to the owner of her favorite Italian restaurant. Soon Connie takes more interest in a sus...
In this 7th delightful culinary mystery from Joanne Pence, dilettante chef Angie Amalfi gets entangled with a group of UFO–chasers and government conspiracy nuts, while trying to get her new business off the ground. Always thinking of new and better business ideas, culinary queen Angie Amalfi is...
Although food writer and dilettante chef Angie Amalfi is ready to start thinking about cutting a wedding cake with her delectable homicide detective boyfriend Paavo Smith, Paavo's got other things on his mind—mainly, the grisly murder of two San Francisco women. While he combs the city for clues ...
Foodie Angie Amalfi has decided to make her culinary name by creating the perfect chocolate confection: angelinas. Donating her delicious rejects to the Random Acts of Kindness Mission in San Francisco, Angie meets the jittery minister in charge. Soon she volunteers to help organize their first f...
A Nasty StewBetween her latest "sure–fire" foray into the food industry—video restaurant reviews—and her concern over boyfriend Homicide Detective Paavo Smith‘s depressed state, Angie Amalfi‘s plate is full to overflowing. Paavo has never come to terms with the fact that his mother abandoned him ...
Nothing could drag chef Angie Amalfi away from San Francisco and her beloved policeman fiance Paavo Smith except for a job preparing the banquet her all time favorite soap opera characters will consume during an upcoming Christmas Reunion Special. So Angie eagerly takes off for the estate where t...
This twelfth culinary mystery from Joanne Pence has everything a mystery reader could ever want: romance, intrigue and, of course, murder. Loveable amateur sleuth and budding chef Angie Amalfi continues her adventures in this exciting addition to a popular series.Dilettante chef and amateur sleut...
How difficult could they be? She quickly found out. Nicolas Flamel had couched everything he said in religious terms. To the medieval mind, his comments may have meant something, but not in modern times. How should one interpret: ...let him ask of himself, why the figure of St. Paul is on the ...
She’d spent over a week at her parents’ house. It was time to go back to living: back to her job at the radio, her history class, even her so-called apprenticeship at LaTour’s. A week ago, when she’d awakened in her old bedroom at her parents’ home in Hillsborough, her father told her Paavo felt ...
With no relatives to object, it took no time to obtain needed approvals to dig up the body. Evelyn was so curious about what she might find, she performed the autopsy during the night. She was over the moon that she now had autopsied two—count them, two—cases of batrachoto...
She couldn't believe how much work there still was to be done. What had she been doing all these days besides wasting time? She obviously left her brains along with her common sense back in New York. She needed to go home. Seeing Tony was madness--fun, she had to admit, her pulse hadn’t raced lik...
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Once inside, tears again filled Courtney’s eyes. “I’m so sorry! I didn’t expect any trouble, and I never expected to put anyone in danger.” “It’s not your fault, Courtney,” Rebecca said. She dried her eyes as best she could. “I also see, with the co...
Despite the many lies Paavo had been told about her, Angie was fairly confident that Cecily and Aulis had been neighbors. What else could a young widowed FBI employee and a middle-aged Finn have in common? Hmm, Angie decided not to pursue that, especially in view of Connie’s brainstorm about the ...
First she tackled the view before her, that of Hong Kong harbor.But then she remembered Darius’s last request to her, that he wanted her to paint Sarawak for him. She did. It wasn’t quite as she had seen it, not like a photograph at all, but an impression of Sarawak, of the colors, the heat, the ...