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The mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky's desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already eaten into his limited family time, Nick can't pass up the opportunity to see what kind of plot his colleagues have hatched. The normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into an intriguing conversation with a baffling man who appears to be...
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"Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Café, known far and wide for its famous 'Fried Green Tomatoes.' And as Bud often said of his childhood, 'How lucky can you get?' But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with...
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In this story of the rich and fascinating London subculture of chefs and kitchen denizens, Gabriel Lightfoot, executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, is trying to run a tight kitchen but his integrity--to say nothing of his sanity--is under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberant multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own,...
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"In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Naomi s Bistro has always been a warm and welcoming spot to visit with neighbors and share a cup o tea. But murder has a way of killing business . . . " Nowadays Siobhan O Sullivan, along with her five siblings, runs the family bistro named for their mother. It s been a rough year for the O Sullivans, but it s about to get rougher. One morning, as they re opening the bistro, they discover a man...
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Sassy Cabot and Bridget Mayfield's Read 'Em and Eat bookstore café is known for its delicious treats and colorful clientele. While Miss Augusta Maddox lectures tourists on rumors of sunken treasure off Florida's Gulf Coast, her shy friend Delia Batson is at the Emily Dickinson table. Shocked by news of Delia's murder, Augusta is distraught and Sassy wants to help. But Augusta doesn't want sympathy. She wants the killer found. Now Sassy is on the...
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2017.
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After hosting a dinner for Indiana University's Sociology Department at her restaurant, Pans 'N Pancakes, Robbie Jordan must flip over the clues to prove that her friend, graduate student Lou, did not kill Professor Charles Stilton, a man who seemed to thrive on heated exchanges with his students and peers before they all get burned.
29) Never too much
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He Wanted Her Completely
A confirmed bachelor, Ben Badwin has had his share of women, and he likes them as sexy, wild, and uninhibited as his desires. Nothing at all like the brash, dirt-covered, wholesomely cute woman who just strutted into his diner. But something about Sierra Murphy's independent attitude makes Ben fantasies run wild. He'd love to dazzle her with his prized sensual skills. . .to make her want him as badly as he suddenly wants
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"The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family's controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay. Owner Jimmy Han hopes to leave...
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2024.
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"Taking a holiday by the sea to eat enough fish and chips to support the struggling business of the aptly named Mrs. Chipper, newlyweds Siobhan and Macdara Flannery instead find the proprietor murdered and place their long-delayed honeymoon on hold to catch a slippery killer"--
34) Turn up the heat
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Leandra, a Simmer server, turns up strangled with her own apron strings in a seafood delivery truck . Most of the restaurant's staff appear to have despised her, but who hated her enough to kill her?
35) Twisted Creek
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Allie has always thought that only bad luck came her way. When she inherits the Twisted Creek café, at first she is waiting for the next calamity to occur, but gradually she meets the local people and realizes that she has finally found a safe haven.
37) A baked ham
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Classic diner ; 4
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[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
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2013.
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A BAKED HAM
Book 4 in the Classic Diner Mystery Series from New York Times Bestseller Jessica Beck, Author of The Donut Shop Mysteries and The Ghost Cat Mystery Series!
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When a local actor is killed after making a pass at Moose's wife, Victoria and her family must find the culprit before Moose is locked up for murder. It's not going to be easy though, because Benny Booth had a real talent for making enemies!
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Nantucket's famous Christmas Stroll is always the first weekend of December and this year sisters Mandy and Emma, and Paul, the executive chef, want to do something extra special for Mimi's Place, the restaurant they co-own. It will be Emma and Paul's first Christmas together as a couple and Mandy's first holiday as a newly single and divorced mother of two. Although Mandy does have a promising new relationship, she wants to take things very slow....
39) Joe Jones
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Tells of the people who work or hang out at Jessie's Cafe.