Fiction

The Restaurant Reviewer, a novel
by Nao Hauser

Matthias Constantine has spent his life preparing and refining the fare at Booths, a steakhouse on the Bowery that was founded by his immigrant grandfather and is now the clubhouse of City Hall politicians. His only help in the kitchen in the years since his wife died has been Armand Fenner, a young protege who lived on the streets as an abandoned child until Matthias rescued him.

Matthias’s son, Damian, witnessed the death of his mother in a car crash in front of the restaurant and took off for the West Coast as soon as he could to escape from the memory. He returned a dozen years later to leverage the restaurant’s real estate into lucrative investments for himself. In his plan he enlisted the help of Tally Lee, a powerful politician who first came to Booths as a teenager to work as a waitress. While waiting on tables she befriended a City Council candidate, bore his daughter; and subsequently rose in Manhattan politics to become a Party boss.

The stroke leaves Matthias weakened, but this leads to his restaurant’s renewal. Damian hires a manager to assist his father, a disillusioned doctor who wants a different life and finds it at Booths. The doctor, while trying to increase the restaurant’s business, unwittingly turns it into a venue that nurtures romance between Tally’s beloved daughter, Benita, a talented singer, and Matthias’s kitchen protege, Fenner. By creating beautiful dishes to please Benita, Fenner brings the restaurant to new heights–and threatens those who would destroy and forget it.

The ambitions, fears, conflicts, and hopes of these people are narrated by the title character, Shaylie Drinan, the restaurant reviewer for a major newspaper, who finds herself drawn inexorably into the survival of Booths.The resolution she brings to the story affirms the goodness of food, the meaning of love.

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The Bride Wore Chocolate
by Shirley Jump

Life couldn’t be more perfect for Candace Woodrow. Her gourmet gift basket company is thriving, and she’s set to marry steady, dependable Barry. There’s just one wrench in the fairytale. Two weeks before her wedding she wakes up in the wrong man’s bed. Candace thinks she’ll be able to run out the door and forget all about Michael Vogler, but the Boston millionaire has other plans for the jittery bride.

As the wedding approaches, Candace’s life is further complicated by a thrill-seeking grandma and a meddlesome mother whose marriage track record rivals Elizabeth Taylor’s. She attempts to drown her sorrows in chocolate, but with a sexy bachelor appearing on her doorstep at every turn – she finds herself wondering if there’s enough of the sweet stuff in the world to stop her heart from racing every time he comes near.

The Sweet and Savory Romances will make you laugh, cry, and rev up your appetite with their hunky heroes. As a special addition, satiate your hunger – for food that is – with tried-and-true recipes written by the characters inside.

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Silenced by the Yams (Barbara Marr Mystery #3)
by Karen Cantwell

What’s more chaotic than a house with a canary, two hungry cats, and a yappy poodle with elimination issues? Answer: Barbara Marr on a murder investigation. That’s right, when Barb attends her first movie review screening, film director Kurt Baugh dies within twenty minutes of meeting her. If that isn’t bad enough, her friend, ex-Mafioso, Frankie Romano, is arrested for the murder. In usual Barbara Marr fashion, a whole load of trouble ensues when she seeks to vindicate Frankie of the crime. More laughs, more fun, more Barbara Marr!

Check out this author’s other books!
Take the Monkeys and Run
Citizen Insane.

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Scrumptious
by Amanda Usen

Joe Rafferty is just as mouthwatering as the food he cooks. But if he thinks he’s going to waltz in and take over her kitchen, he’s denser than a thick slice of chocolate ripple cheesecake. Marly has invested too much of her life in Chameleon to hand off the restaurant to someone else – especially a cocky–as–all–get–out superstar chef. But there’s no denying the man knows how to light her fire. Question is: Can she have the sizzle without feeling the burn?

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The Complete Mystery Novel Collection Vol. 1
by Agatha Christie

THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ALL TIME WITH OVER 4 BILLION COPIES SOLD!

Volume 1 of this collection contains over 1,100 pages of Agatha Christie’s early including works, including her very first novel and the first introduction to Hercule Poirot in The Mysterious Affair at Styles as well as the first introduction to Tommy and Tuppance in the critically acclaimed detective novel The Secret Adversary.

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Yummy Yucky
by Leslie Patricelli

Spaghetti is yummy, but worms – and blue crayons, and sand, and other things too gross to mention – are definitely yucky when tasted. Amiably illustrated in a bright, graphic style, Leslie Patricelli’s spirited book, YUMMY YUCKY stars an obliging, bald, and very expressive toddler who acts out each pair of opposites with comically dramatic effect.

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To Have and to Kill: A Wedding Cake Mystery
by Mary Jane Clark

Piper Donovan never imagined that decorating wedding cakes could be so dangerous! A struggling actress with no immediate prospects and a recently broken engagement, Piper moves back in with her parents to take stock of her life. She steps tentatively into the family bakery business and finds herself agreeing to create a wedding cake for the acclaimed star of a daytime television drama. But soon someone close to the bride-to-be is horribly murdered and it seems that that someone is ruthlessly determined to stop the wedding.

With the help of her former neighbor, Jack, a handsome FBI agent with a soft spot for the gorgeous cake-maker, Piper moves closer to the truth. And as she narrows in on a suspect, she realizes that it’s hotter in the kitchen than she may be able to handle…

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