Death Al Dente: A Food Lovers' Village Mystery

By Leslie Budewitz

Book Overview

FIRST IN THE NEW CULINARY MYSTERY SERIES --WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL The 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

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425259544
• ISBN13: 9780425259542
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

a good mystery book, with recipes at the end!

it was good, not great, but entertaining enough. i liked the characters, i really liked the setting. food was intertwined through it, including real recipes at the end. (i plan to make the french cookies, palmiers!) the mystery was good. there were plenty of suspicious characters, but no sure suspect. one thing of note, to me, anyway, there was no love story associated with this book. a couple possible set-ups for the future. that was a little bit refreshing for me. i feel like they all think they have to have that in every book, and honestly, sometimes it overshadows the story a bit. i think i would read the next one, to see what happens next.