Bread and Murder in Aramezzo by Michelle Damiani

Bread and Murder in Aramezzo by Michelle Damiani

An idyllic village.

A ruthless killer.

And secrets by the baker's dozen...

It's been two months since Stella Buchanan discovered that real-life murder isn't quite as relaxing as the ones between the pages of her beloved Italian mystery books. Now, somewhere between harvesting olives for oil and helping to shear the local sheep, Stella must admit that - against her better judgement - Aramezzo is starting to feel like home.

But just as village life finds a comfortable rhythm, the beloved local baker is found dead at the crack of dawn - and when Stella locates the murder weapon, she inadvertently frames herself as the main suspect.

When Stella uncovers a long-buried secret that sheds light on her friend's floury demise, she follows her well-trained chef's nose to Assisi. Did the mayor have a motive? Or was it an ages-old rivalry between two bakeries that moved someone's hand to murder?

With time running out to prove her innocence, Stella must sift through the conflicting evidence to clear her name...before Aramezzo's secrets (and the killer) catch up with her.

Bread and Murder in Aramezzo is the second book in the Murder In an Italian Village series by Michelle Damiani and includes the recipe for a classic Umbrian dessert. If you love cozy mysteries and armchair travel with a side of crusty bread, you'll love these mysteries

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Michelle Damiani is a Charlottesville, Virginia-based freelance writer, clinical psychologist, and foodie. Her heart, on the other hand, is in Spello, Italy, where she and her family spent a year acclimating to being out of their element, wrestling with the challenges of parenting on foreign territory, and eventually cleaving into the essence of Italian village life. Michelle created short fiction before her year abroad, and one of her works was just awarded first prize in the Hook Short Fiction Award, which was judged by novelist John Grisham. She used the time her children were in Italian public schools to write a blog about their experiences while in Italy. Expatsblog gave the site Il Bon Centro the bronze prize for best Italian blog.

When she returned to Charlottesville, she turned the blog into a book, Il Bel Centro: A Year in the Beautiful Center, which is now available in print and digital formats. She began writing a four-part novel series set in Italy because she missed her village. Santa Lucia, The Quiet Madonna, and The Stillness of Swallows are three of the books that have been published. Michelle has compiled the collective wisdom of traveling families into The Road Taken: How to Imagine, Plan, and Experience Your Family Journey Overseas, a thorough guide.

You can find her at www.michelledamiani.com when she isn't organizing her forthcoming trip around the world.