Heaven Lee Culinary Mystery by Lou Jane Temple (Books 1-7)
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Overview: LOU JANE TEMPLE, the former owner of Cafe Lulu in Kansas City, continues to develop menus for new restaurants. She writes about food and entertaining for Kansas City Magazine, and is the author of the Heaven Lee Mysteries, a series of culinary thrillers.
Genre: Fiction » Mystery/Thriller
1. Death by Rhubarb (1996)
At Cafe Heaven, the souffles don’t fall, but the bodies do.
Heaven Lee is sassy, brassy, and street-smart. She’s also one of Kansas City’s premier caterers. With a string of failed careers and stalled marriages behind her, Heaven’s finally found her true love-Cafe Heaven, a trendy restaurant on midtown 39th.
Open-mike night at Cafe Heaven gets pretty hairy, but Heaven is shocked when lovely lawyer Tasha Arnold drops dead from poisoning med-dinner. With the law and word-of-mouth threatening to close her down, Heaven does what any chef worth her salt would-she turns sleuth.
But asking questions on a mean street like 39th gets Heaven into hot water. Somewhere out there is a killer who would turn Kansas City’s favorite caterer into Kansas City’s freshest corpse!
Featuring original recipes for such tempting treats as risotto with mushrooms and asparagus, gingerbread upside-down cake and pumpkin piccadillo.
2. Revenge of the Barbecue Queens (1997)
Kansas City’s premier restaurateur, Heaven Lee, accidentally finds the upended body of champion barbecue cooker and giant pain Pigpen Hopkins sticking out of a potent pot of his extra-special secret barbecue sauce. Unfortunately, Heaven has had problems with the law before, and even though she came out clean, this is one sticky mess that’s hard to explain.
3. A Stiff Risotto (1997)
Heaven Lee — proprietress extraordinaire of Kansas City’s celebrated Cafe heaven — knew she had to watch her back at Aspen’s gossipy Real Dish Food Festival. But it wasn’t until the sauch cook stumbled across the battered body of one of the Best Chef contestants that she realized how deadly the competition could be.
Every June, five thousand gourmands from across the globe gather in the chic resort town of Aspen, sipping wine in the pristine mountain air as five celebrity chefs battle for the Best Chef title. When the competitors start to drop, there’s a bountiful supply of suspects. The intrepid Heaven discovers scores to settle, Hollywood ambitions, and outright malice before making sure a vicious killer gets their just deserts!
4. Bread on Arrival (1998)
Heaven Lee, Kansas City chef and reluctant heroine, is one tough cookie. Not only can she slice, dice, and julienne the finest food in town, she’s got nerves of steel to match her culinary skills. This time, Heaven Lee takes on the fine art of making bread. But when one of her associates mysteriously winds up dead in the dough, perfecting her breadbaking skills is suddenly the last of Heaven’s worries, as someone with a taste for murder is on the loose.
5. The Cornbread Killer (1999)
Heaven Lee is tackling the world of soul food and jazz. When a jazz festival comes to town, the chief organizer is murdered. She gets fingered as a suspect along with others who dislike her. But the festival must go on.
6. Red Beans and Vice (2001)
Chef and restauranteur Heaven Lee has been in plenty of scrapes in her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. This time around, she’s cooking up trouble in New Orleans while visiting to help the Sisters of the Holy Trinity hold their annual benefit dinner. The convent is having financial problems and only Heaven Lee’s culinary creativity can offer hope. Unfortunately, before she can really get cooking, Heaven’s old friend Mary’s husband, HeavelkjTruely Whitten, coffee importer and native New Orleanian, is found murdered with Heaven’s own knife. To make matters worse, the convent’s sacred cross simultaneously turns up missing. When she becomes the prime suspect, Heaven has no choice but to put her pots and pans aside and pursue the villain in order to both clear her own name and get dinner on the table in time for the big benefit. Heaven’s smart, saucy attitude spurs her on in the search for the vicious murderer as well as for the perfect New Orleans dish to serve the Sisters. When all else fails, she finds the answers to both puzzles right under her own nose, saving the day and serving up a new signature Heaven Lee dish, Nola Pie. The delectable dessert is guaranteed to tantalize reader’s taste buds and the satisfying mystery will leave them begging for seconds.
7. Death is Semisweet (2002)
Heaven Lee is at it again, this time when a sniper shoots down a blimp advertising the 50th anniversary of Foster’s Chocolates, a family-owned business in Heaven’s hometown of Kansas City. Then a man is found dead at the opening of Foster’s new chocolate factory. This family is rife with in-fighting and backstabbing over the chocolate fortune, but is it enough to kill over? The dynamic Heaven tackles the case. All in all, it’s another delicious mystery complete with sinfully delicious chocolate recipes.
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