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A Dish Best Served Dead

Published
Aug 2025
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Police Procedural Police Procedural
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237

About This Book

When a food convention turns fatal, Tiffany Austin will have to cook up a scheme to catch a killer . . .

 

The national Foodie Fest is in town and food blogger Tiffany Austin is thrilled to report on the event, even if it means crossing paths with an arrogant and annoying chef from her past. The man can't help boasting of his success, but he also lets slip to Tiffany that he's publishing a tell-all memoir that will be filled with scandalous secrets about many people in the food industry. It's a risky career move, and maybe just plain risky, as Tiffany discovers later that day when she finds the chef's dead body mere steps from the convention center.

 

With any number of reputations and careers at stake if the chef's memoir were ever published, Tiffany realizes virtually everyone at the event is a suspect. Wending her way through the convention crowd in her guise as a reporter, she cautiously questions as many of the participants as she can, hoping to unearth a telling clue or a false alibi. Because while everyone has a skeleton or two in the closet, Tiffany knows someone at the food fest has a secret they'd kill to protect—and would kill for again if she gets too close to the truth . . . 

 

Includes scrumptious Foodie Fest recipes!

 

Praise for the books of T. C. LoTempio, winner of the Firebird Award for Best Cozy Mystery:

 

"If you love cozy mystery books with cats, great characters, yummy food descriptions, and twisty mysteries, you will love A Purr Before Dying!" —Christy's Cozy Corners

 

"A fabulous addition to the fun cozy mystery series. It can be read on its own but it is so much better if you have read them in order. T. C. LoTempio creates a story that you won't want to put down." —Books A Plenty Book Reviews 

 

"I hope we get more adventures and mysteries with Nora and Nick. There's so much intrigue in each book with some hints at a potential romance. I know I'm in for hours of enjoyment when I see a new Nick and Nora book out." —Socrates' Book Reviews

 

"A Purr Before Dying was so entertaining. I hope this series continues for a long time as these characters are some of my favorites." —Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book

 

About the Author:

 

T. C. LoTempio is the award-winning, nationally bestselling author of the Nick and Nora Mysteries, the Urban Tails Pet Shop Mysteries, the Tiffany Austin Food Blogger Mysteries, and the Cat Rescue Mysteries. For more information, check out her and her cat Rocco's blog at www.catsbooksmorecats.blogspot.com and visit her website at www.tclotempio.net.

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