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Red Hot Murder by JoAnne Pence

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Also by JoAnne Pence:

The Da Vinci Cook, March 2007
Paperback
Red Hot Murder, January 2006
Paperback
Courting Disaster, November 2004
Paperback
Mistletoe and Mayhem, October 2004
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Two Cooks A-Killing, October 2003
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If Cooks Could Kill, January 2003
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Bell, Cook, and Candle, January 2002
Paperback
To Catch a Cook, November 2000
Paperback

RED HOT MURDER
By: JoAnne Pence

Angie Amalfi Mystery
Avon
January 2006
Featuring: Angie Amalfi; Paavo Smith
368 pages
ISBN: 0060758058
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Mystery Woman Sleuth

Dilettante chef Angie Amalfi doubts if she'll actually survive her engagement to San Francisco homicide detective Paavo Smith, what with her meddling mom micromanaging the whole affair. So Angie leaps at the chance to spend some time away with her fiancΓ© in the sun-drenched Arizona desert town where he'd spent time as a boy -- and maybe explore the possibility of a Southwestern-themed wedding feast.

But her groom-to-be is going back there to help a friend investigate the murder of a wealthy local -- and it seems this tiny desert community is a hotbed of deadly secrets. And when a second course of murder is served up, suddenly Angie's tasty getaway with her lover is starting to look more and more like her final meal.

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