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Courting Disaster 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
Paperback
If Cooks Could Kill, January 2003
Paperback
Bell, Cook, and Candle, January 2002
Paperback
To Catch a Cook, November 2000
Paperback

COURTING DISASTER
By: JoAnne Pence

Angie Amalfi Mystery
Avon
November 2004
Featuring: Angie Amalfi; Paavo Smith
304 pages
ISBN: 0060502916
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Normally dilettante chef and freelance food writer Angie Amalfi would rather be deep-fried than let her control- freak mother plan the party celebrating Angie's engagement to San Francisco homicide detective Paavo Smith. But there's already too much on the bride-to-be's plate ... and much of it is murderous.

What with her unhealthy interest in friendly neighbor Stan's dangerous infatuation with a mysterious, very pregnant kitchen helper at a nearby Greek eateryβ€”and in the related sudden death by very unnatural causes of a celebrated do-gooderβ€”incurable snoop Angie may be biting off a lot more souvlaki than she can safely swallow. Stir in a vengeful stalker, some strange happenings on a fishing boat, and a second heaping helping of homicide, and it looks like poor Paavo may end up celebrating solo, due to the untimely d.o.a. of his hapless fiancΓ©e!

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