Book Title: A DISH BEST SERVED DEAD
Character Name: Tiffany Austin
How would you describe your family or your childhood?
I had a relatively normal childhood and grew up with parents who were always very supportive of my career
What was your greatest talent?
I think my appreciation for good food is my greatest talent – its surely paid off so far. I also seem to have a talent for putting clues together and solving mysteries – I know of a few people who would disagree that’s my greatest talent LOL
Significant other?
Detective Phillip Bartell
Biggest challenge in relationships?
my flair for detection!
Where do you live?
Currently in my hometown of Branson, Georgia
Do you have any enemies?
the people I’ve helped send to prison!
How do you feel about the place where you are now?
Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place? – I grew up in Branson, so I have a fondness for it. My BFF Hilary is here, and my current sweetie, Phil Bartell. I guess you could say I’m particularly attached to them, and to my job at Southern Style as food blogger
Do you have children, pets, both, or neither?
I have a Siamese cat, Lily, and a King Charles Cavalier spaniel - Cooper!
What do you do for a living?
I was a chef, but now I am a food blogger for Southern Style magazine.
What do you do to entertain yourself or have fun?
Solve mysteries!
What keeps you awake at night?
when the clues for a mystery just don’t come together!
Is there something that you need or want that you don’t have? For yourself or for someone important to you?
a solid relationship with Phil Bartell – but I’m working on it!
Why don’t you have it? What is in the way?
See my answer to number 10
Tiffany Austin Food Blogger Mysteries #3
When a food convention turns fatal, Tiffany Austin will have to cook up a scheme to catch a killer . . .
The national Foodie Fest is in town and food blogger Tiffany Austin is thrilled to report on the event, even if it means crossing paths with an arrogant and annoying chef from her past. The man can’t help boasting of his success, but he also lets slip to Tiffany that he’s publishing a tell-all memoir that will be filled with scandalous secrets about many people in the food industry. It’s a risky career move, and maybe just plain risky, as Tiffany discovers later that day when she finds the chef’s dead body mere steps from the convention center.
With any number of reputations and careers at stake if the chef’s memoir were ever published, Tiffany realizes virtually everyone at the event is a suspect. Wending her way through the convention crowd in her guise as a reporter, she cautiously questions as many of the participants as she can, hoping to unearth a telling clue or a false alibi. Because while everyone has a skeleton or two in the closet, Tiffany knows someone at the food fest has a secret they’d kill to protect—and would kill for again if she gets too close to the truth . . .
Includes scrumptious Foodie Fest recipes!
Mystery Cozy [Beyond the Page, On Sale: August 5, 2025, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781966322184 / ]
Born in New York City, T. C. LoTempio has been a staff reporter at the young adult magazine Susabella Passengers and Friends for more than a decade. When she isn’t reporting or writing novels, she and her cat Rocco fundraise for Nathan Fillion’s charity, Kids Need to Read.
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