Death Al Dente
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Death Al Dente by Leslie Budewitz
FIRST IN THE NEW CULINARY MYSTERY SERIES!--WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELThe town of Jewel Bay, Montana-known as a Food Lovers' Village-is obsessed with homegrown and homemade Montana fare. So when Erin Murphy takes over her family's century-old general store, she turns it into a boutique market filled with local delicacies. But Erin's freshly booming business might go rotten when a former employee turns up dead...
Murphy's Mercantile, known as the Merc, has been a staple in Jewel Bay for over a hundred years. To celebrate their recent makeover as a gourmet food market, Erin has organized a town festival, Festa di Pasta, featuring the culinary goods of Jewel Bay's finest-including her mother Fresca's delicious Italian specialties.
But Erin's sweet success is soured when the shop's former manager, Claudette, is found dead behind the Merc on the Festa's opening night. With rival chef James Angelo stirring up rumors that Fresca's sauce recipes were stolen from Claudette, Erin's mother is under close scrutiny. Now Erin will have to hunt down some new suspects, or both her family and her store might wind up in hot water...
INCLUDES FRESH, DELICIOUS RECIPES!
Leslie Budewitz's two cozy mystery series, the Spice Shop Mysteries, set in Seattle's Pike Place Market, and the Food Lovers' Village Mysteries, set in NW Montana, combine her love of food, excellent mysteries, and the Northwest. Leslie has won three Agatha Awards: Best First Novel in 2013 for DEATH AL DENTE, the first Food Lovers' Village mystery; Best Nonfiction in 2011; and Best Short Story in 2018 for All God's Sparrows, her first work of historical fiction. Her work has also been nominated for Derringer, Anthony, and Macavity awards, and she has won or been nominated for them. She lives and cooks in NW Montana, where she is a past president of Sisters in Crime and a current board member of Mystery Writers of America.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780425259542 |
| ISBN 10 | 0425259544 |
| Title | Death Al Dente |
| Author | Leslie Budewitz |
| Series | Food Lovers' Village Mystery |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2013-08-06 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of Agatha Awards (First Novel) 2013 |
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