Death Al Dente

Name: Death Al Dente
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: Leslie Budewitz
ISBN: 9781541472082

Author: Leslie Budewitz

Series: Food Lovers' Village Mystery #1

Narrator: Rebecca Mitchell

Unabridged: 9 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/30/2017

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Amateur Sleuth, Cozy

Synopsis

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 . . .

About Leslie Budewitz

Leslie Budewitz is the nationally bestselling author of the Spice Shop Mysteries and the Food Lovers' Village Mysteries. She is also the author of short stories that have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Suspense Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and other publications. She is the winner of the 2013 Agatha Award for Best First Novel for Death al Dente and the 2011 Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction for Books, Crooks & Counselors.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James

When Erin Murphy returns home from Seattle to Jewel Bay, Montana, to take over the family business, she can't begin to anticipate the obstacles that stand in the way of her potential success. The business is the Glacier Mercantile, known locally as "The Merc," and it was established a hundred years e......more

Goodreads review by James

Death Al Dente is the first book in the Food Lovers' Village Mystery series written by Leslie Budewitz. I've caught up reading her the author's other series, Spice Shop Mysteries, and I've read her stand-alone novel written under a pseudonym, but this was my foray into this collection. It's also the......more

Goodreads review by beachbum bookworm

This was a reread...yep still good! lol. Im going to be interviewing Leslie Budewitz this Sunday the 28th @ 2pm es time, and wanted the series fresh in my mind. [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Gary

Enjoyable start to the Food Lovers' Village Mystery series. Plus one point for not having a hunky cop boyfriend. Minus one half for a possible triangle. Looking forward to book 2.......more

Goodreads review by Liz

There was a good premise here and it started out ok, but a mess of plots and confusing prose left me scratching my head. I think one of the biggest issues was that it often felt like paragraphs didn't belong together or just skipped from one subject to the next with no real reason. Similarly, there......more