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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Delighted by a chance to prepare a banquet for the cast of her favorite, but now defunct, soap opera during an upcoming Christmas reunion special, chef Angie Amalfi is disturbed when she discovers a corpse in the cellar.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Although food writer and dilettante chef Angie Amalfi is ready to start thinking about cutting a wedding cake with her delectable homicide detective boyfriend Paavo Smith, Paavo's got other things on his mind-mainly, the grisly murder of two San Francisco women. While he combs the city for clues to the brutal slayings, Angie begins a quest of her own: searching for a little gem of a restaurant for a magazine review. She discovers three grumpy old...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
In this 7th delightful culinary mystery from Joanne Pence, dilettante chef Angie Amalfi gets entangled with a group of UFO–chasers and government conspiracy nuts, while trying to get her new business off the ground. Always thinking of new and better business ideas, culinary queen Angie Amalfi is sure she's got a winner with "Fantasy Dinners," one–of–a–kind thematic feasts specifically created to suit a client's unique tastes. Unfortunately...
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Series
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
309 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
A Nasty Stew Between her latest "sure–fire" foray into the food industry-video restaurant reviews-and her concern over boyfriend Homicide Detective Paavo Smith's depressed state, Angie Amalfi's plate is full to overflowing. Paavo has never come to terms with the fact that his mother abandoned him when he was four, leaving vehind only an antique brooch to remember her by. But when the bauble vanishes, the jeweler who was repairing it is murdered,...
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Series
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
After talking her way into a job on a pompous, third-rate chef's radio call-in-show, Angie Amalfi has visions of a new career to go along with her hot, new romance with Paavo Smith, a gorgeous homocide detective. When a successful and much-envied restauranteur is poisoned however, Angie finds the case far more interesting than trying to make her pretentious boss sound good. Some cooks might shy away from such a sizzling case, but Angie can take the...
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Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Dilettante chef Angie Amalfi doubts if she'll actually survive her engagement to San Francisco homicide detective Paavo Smith, what with her meddling mom micromanaging the whole affair. So Angie leaps at the chance to spend some time away with her fiance in the sun-drenched Arizona desert town where he'd spent time as a boy -- and maybe explore the possibility of a Southwestern-themed wedding feast. But her groom-to-be is going back there to help...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
With another failed business behind her, dilettante chef Angie Amalfi is cooking up a new scheme: Pairing up her best friend Connie with a handsome professional football player who just happens to be related to the owner of her favorite Italian restaurant. Soon Connie takes more interest in a suspicious loner than Angie's "dream man" and her despondent friend decides to recreate herself as a restaurant consultant. But when police begin to suspect...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chef Angie Amalfi can't wait to take off from the city for a week to help devise a delicious vegetarian menu for a lovely new B&B in scenic northern California. The not-yet-open-for-business Hill Haven Inn will be the perfect place to take her budding romance with her homicide detective boyfriend Paavo to the next level! But the situation awaiting them turns out to be less than ideal-with battling investors, rumors of ghosts, cold drafts, a leaky...