Best friends Annie and Eve know the bare bones of both culinary school and amateur sleuthing. Now they’re in the trenches, struggling to keep a new restaurant, Bellywasher’s, from going belly up… Annie and Eve have joined their former cooking teacher, Jim—who doubles as Annie’s on-again, off-again boyfriend—in running his new restaurant, Bellywasher’s. Bombshell Eve is the hostess, while Annie stays behind the scenes, frantically managing everything from the books to the radicchio supply. Then a rave review makes the spot an instant success, drawing Washington’s high-powered elite to sample Jim’s cooking…people with both money and secrets to burn. Everything’s simmering along just fine until Annie and Eve find their friend Sarah, staffer to a powerful Congressman, lying dead in her tub. The cops want to write it off as a suicide, but the girls notice that, like Annie’s invoices, the facts just don’t add up. Then, after a series of suspicious “accidents” that come dangerously close to taking the girls permanently out of commission, Annie and Eve realize that this kitchen fire isn’t about to put itself out…

‘A sparklingly delicious confection to satisfy the mystery reader’s appetite’ Helena Dixon, bestselling author of the Miss Underhay Mysteries

A sexy sleuth, a silenced stripper, and a sociopathic serial killer ...Murder on the Menu is the debut novel of award winning author, Nancy Skopin. The first in a series of mysteries featuring Private Investigator Nicoli "Nikki" Hunter, the only child of a Cossack and a former nun. Nikki is a smart, tenacious thirty-five-year-old, who lives aboard her sailboat in the San Francisco Bay Area and runs her PI business out of a ground floor office in the marina where she lives.In Murder on the Menu, Nikki has lost enthusiasm for the mundane surveillance jobs that pay the bills but no longer challenge her. When the brutal murder of socialite, and exotic dancer, Laura Howard, lands on her desk, she finally encounters a foe worthy of her unique skills.

Mack's Bar is one of those nice, friendly places where everybody knows your name. That's great when someone's buying you a round - but not so hot when you find yourself at the top of a list of murder suspects with your fingerprints on the bloddy knife!

Hit whodunit writer Victoria Rienzi is getting back to her roots by working at her family’s Italian restaurant. But now in between plating pasta and pouring vino, she’ll have to find the secret ingredient in a murder.... When Victoria takes a break from penning her popular mystery series and moves back to the Jersey shore, she imagines sun, sand, and scents of fresh basil and simmering marinara sauce at the family restaurant, the Casa Lido. But her nonna’s recipes aren’t the only things getting stirred up in this Italian kitchen. Their small town is up in arms over plans to film a new reality TV show, and when Victoria serves the show’s pushy producer his last meal, the Casa Lido staff finds itself embroiled in a murder investigation. Victoria wants to find the real killer, but there are as many suspects as tomatoes in her nonna’s garden. Now she’ll have to heat up her sleuthing skills quickly…before someone else gets a plateful of murder. First in a new series! RECIPES INCLUDED!