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Also by Riley Adams:

Rubbed Out, July 2013
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Hickory Smoked Homicide, November 2011
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Finger Lickin' Dead, June 2011
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Delicious And Suspicious, July 2010
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Delicious And Suspicious
Riley Adams

A Memphis BBQ Mystery
Berkley
July 2010
On Sale: July 6, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 042523553X
EAN: 9780425235539
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Mystery Cozy

Welcome to Aunt Pat's barbecue restaurant, which serves up Memphis fun with a side order of murder.

Recipes included.

Named in honor of Lulu Taylor's great aunt, Aunt Pat's family-run Memphis restaurant is known for its ribs and spicy cornbread. But now the Taylor family will be known for murder...

Rebecca Adrian came to Memphis to suss out the best local BBQ for a prominent Cooking Channel Show. Trouble is, a mystery ingredient has killed her-and now all fingers are pointing to Aunt Pat's restaurant. Horrified that her family is being accused of murder, Lulu fires up her investigative skills to solve the crime before someone else gets skewered.

Memphis BBQ

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4 comments posted.

Re: Delicious And Suspicious

Thanks so much for interviewing me, Sharon! It was fun. :)
(Elizabeth Craig 7:11am July 20, 2010)

Great interview, Elizabeth and I'm looking forward to reading your newest novel!
I noticed the authors you referenced all seemed to be women, which got me to thinking there really aren't terribly many men writing cozies these days. During the Golden Age, you had Ellery Queen and the like writing in the cozie genre, but the hard boiled/ procedural mystery seems to to have eclipsed this in current times. Do you have any thoughts about why this is the case?
(Ike Horton 9:14am July 20, 2010)

PS - My favorite "cozy" of all time has to be from the father of Hard boiled, Dashiel Hammett's "Thin Man."
(Ike Horton 9:18am July 20, 2010)

Ike, that's a very good observation. There *are* men that I know of who write cozies--EJ Copperman is one, Jim Lavene (who writes with his wife, Joyce) and Cleo Coyle's husband, who is half of their writing team.

But I think you're right that the number has decreased over the years and men seem to gravitate over to thriller and hard boiled more. Maybe it'll increase because more men are reading cozies than they have in years.

Thanks for your comment!
(Elizabeth Craig 7:20pm July 23, 2010)