Bernadette Simmons wasn’t sure what to expect when she left L.A.–and her no-good, cheating boyfriend–to move back in with her family in New York. And her sister Libby had no idea what she was in for when she hired Bernie to work for her catering business. But in between cutting up canapés and dishing up desserts, the two find themselves in the midst of a mystery they can really sink their teeth … teeth into. . .
It’s only been a few days since Bernie and Libby started working together at A Little Taste of Heaven, and already they’ve got their hands full–baking cookies and slicing rare beef tenderloin to serve at a high school reunion. The dinner has a “Dracula” theme and a very strange guest of honor: Laird Wrenn, a New York Times bestselling author of vampire novels. Libby and Bernie know this will be an evening unlike any other. And they’re proven right when Laird pours a glass of water, takes a long sip–and drops stone-cold dead. . .
Now, with murder on the menu and Libby under suspicion, the sisters will have to put their heads together to figure out whodunit–in a mystery that promises to be deadly to the very last bite.
“A naturally flowing narrative, lively and likeable characters, and plenty of clever word play amid the foul play set this first novel above the common run of cozies.” —Publishers Weekly
Includes 7 Delectable Recipes for You to Try!
Isis Crawford was born in Egypt to parents who were in the diplomatic corps. When she was five, her family returned to the States, where her mother opened a restaurant in upper Westchester County and her father became a university professor. Since then, Isis has combined her parents’ love of food and travel by running a catering service as well as penning numerous travel-related articles about places ranging from Omsk to Paraguay. Married, with twin boys, she presently resides in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, where she is working on the next Bernie and Libby culinary mystery.
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Dollycas’s Thoughts
Bernadette Simmons escaped from Los Angeles leaving her cheating ex behind along with most of her belongings to return home to New York. There she starts working with her sister Libby at A Little Taste of Heaven, a store and catering company. They have been hired to cater a high school reunion with a Dracula theme. The guest …
Two sisters become a team in a store and catering
business plus as amateur sleuths.
Bernadette Simmons arrives at home in New York
after fleeing a cheating boyfriend in Los Angeles
with just the clothes on her back.
She turns to her sister, Libby who runs A Little
Taste of Heaven store and catering business while
caring for their father who is …
Isis Crawford is the pseudonym of Barbara Block, a mystery writer whose Robin Light series I read & enjoyed several years ago. I was so excited to discover that she writes a more lighter, cozier series. I thoroughly enjoyed the first installment in the Mystery With Recipes series and am looking forward to more adventures with sisters Bernadette & …
I did not finish it. I really tried to read all of it and I got almost to the end, but the foul language that was used just bothered me to much. I glossed over it at first but it just wasn’t worth it anymore. Really hope others who read it liked it.