Love food? Enjoy a nice glass of wine? How about a murder mystery? Food blogger Willa Friday is excited to start training her new assistant to make recipes and style food. And she’s excited that her blog, A Dish in Thyme, is finally making enough money to hire an assistant. But she has other obligations too, like the food photography for the annual Whine & Roses Benefit poster.Dreading her … Benefit poster.
Dreading her meeting, Willa gets a surprise when she arrives and the vineyard owner is dead.
With her (ex)mother-in-law as the prime suspect, Willa reluctantly gets involved in the investigation. In the process, she learns of the many secrets the vineyard owners of Pear, California are hiding, which puts her directly in the killer’s line of fire.
Included in this novel are recipes and food and wine pairing suggestions.
This is the first book in the Willa Friday Food and Wine Culinary Cozy Mystery series.
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I enjoyed the conversations about food and the recipes at the end.
entertaining
I couldn’t get interested in the characters
Good read
I liked the characters and their interaction. The identity of the murderer was a surprise. The plot was interesting.
Good read, will look for more by this author!
A lovely mix of an intriguing profession and mystery
Pasta Pinot & Murder checks all the boxes for a great cozy. Intrepid heroine. Interesting, somewhat unavailable love interest. Cast of interesting characters, including beautiful best friend and feisty seniors. Lots of lovely food. Law enforcement good, but not good enough.
There is an issue of wanton crime scene contamination, but we can overlook that, right?
Enjoyable easy read
A good Cozy mystery with a surprise ending. Recipes too! Great!
Learning about restaurants and food blooming. I liked the characters .
It was a fun, nice read
I enjoyed this. The technical information about food styling was really interesting.
Absolutely loved this book. Can’t wait to read more from this author.
This book moved a little too fast for much character development but was still entertaining.
Nice cozy mystery.
The book was a good relaxed fun easy read.
Great read!!
Light reading
A great cozy, keeps you reading past bedtime and you learn about California wine growing.
Quite enjoyable. Wanted it to continue.