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Overview: Joanne Pence is an award-winning, USA Today best-selling author of the Ancient Secrets supernatural suspense novels, the Inspector Rebecca Mayfield mysteries, and The Cook and the Inspector mysteries, as well as contemporary romance, historical fiction, romantic suspense, and a fantasy. Her novels present a variety of times, places, and reading experiences from mysterious to thrilling, emotional to lightly humorous, as well as powerful tales of times long past.
Her books have won or been nominated for a number of high honors, including the Willa Cather Literary Award for Historical Fiction; North American Book Award for Mystery; Idaho Top Fiction Award; The Golden Quill, RWA’s Rita and Golden Heart Awards, Daphne du Maurier Award, Independent Bookseller’s Golden Scroll, and Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and Best Amateur Sleuth Award.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller Cozy
A Quiche Before Dying (#2)
When the glamour of the culinary world conceals a dark secret, murder is on the menu…
Angie Amalfi is ecstatic when she lands a job on a pompous chef’s call-in radio show, believing she’ll whisk her way to stardom. But the murder of a popular restaurant owner sends shockwaves through the city’s elite dining scene. Angie knows this world and leaps fork-first into the mystery, inadvertently complicating the investigation of the man who has stolen her heart, Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith
As the body count rises, the dangers increase in a shadowy underworld where money, power, and illicit film producers stir the pot. Oblivious to the simmering peril, Angie soon finds herself in the middle of a deadly stew, where not only her new job, but her budding relationship with Paavo face being poisoned into extinction. Will she and Paavo navigate the twists and turns, saving not just their lives but also the fragile bond forming between them? Or are they doomed to be the next deadly course?
The Marinara Murders (#3)
Murder, marinara, and marriage dreams collide in this suspense-laden culinary thriller…
Gourmet cook Angie Amalfi is on a mission: to find a hidden gem of a restaurant to review for a top culinary magazine. At the same time, handsome Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith is working to solve the sexually-tinged murders of two women. The two goals converge when Angie’s world takes a sinister turn.
Angie discovers three grumpy old men who make a mean marinara, but seem to know nothing about how to run a business—at least not a restaurant business. And since she’s growing closer to Paavo, she’s bursting with questions about married life. But at the same time, the eerie feeling that someone is stalking her becomes increasingly unnerving. The feeling isn’t helped when, the more Paavo learns about the killings, he fears Angie may be next on the psychopathic killer’s menu.
Will Angie find the perfect restaurant and what marriage really means, and will she and Paavo find and stop the mysterious killer before he makes Angie his victim? The answers simmer in this culinary escapade where every question leads to another layer of suspense and mystery.
Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind (#4)
Gourmet cuisine, UFO-chasers, and government conspiracies collide in this cosmic culinary caper…
Angie Amalfi is sure she’s finally come up with the perfect career—owner and head chef of Fantasy Dinners, bringing fantasies to life through catered dinner parties. But when her only clients turn out to be the eccentric members of a group of devoted UFO-chasers and government conspiracy connoisseurs, she realizes she’s cooking with a whole new set of ingredients. As she concocts dishes to satisfy their extraterrestrial appetites, Angie stumbles upon a saucer-sized mystery.
At the same time, San Francisco Homicide Inspector, Paavo Smith, finds himself knee-deep in several murders as mysterious as Area 51, and as gruesome as stories involving “extraterrestrial abductions.”
Angie finds herself drawn ever deeper into a whirlpool of Men in Black, Roswell lore, and suspicious sightings. When she finds a connection between her clients and Paavo’s investigations, she fears she’s rocketed herself her into a close encounter that has nothing to do with the food aliens eat. Will Angie and Paavo solve the mystery before it’s lights out for our favorite Earthlings?
Death by Devil’s Food (#5)
Gourmet cook Angie Amalfi’s newest culinary business, "Comical Cakes," is a roaring success, bringing joy to all with her whimsical, laugh-inducing confections. But there’s nothing funny about the chilling case her homicide inspector boyfriend, Paavo Smith, is grappling with—a series of baffling murders seemingly rooted in satanic ritual.
When Angie is called upon to deliver a humorous cake to the enigmatic owner of a decadent after-hours Goth club, her gourmet curiosity plunges her into a world of dark intrigue.
At the same time, Paavo has a serious question on his mind—one that he hopes to ask Angie, if only she can find a moment in her chaotic cake-baking schedule to listen to him. As Paavo races against time to unmask a killer, Angie must use all her culinary wit to help solve the mystery before she becomes devil’s food of a different kind.
With their lives and their future together on the line, Angie and Paavo must navigate a perilous path to uncover the truth. Will they catch the killer, or will Angie find herself iced… for good?
Note: This is a fully rewritten and reimagined rendering of an earlier mystery, Bell, Cook, and Candle.
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