A Five-Ingredient Mystery: By Cook or by Crook (Series #1) (Paperback)

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Val Deniston is hoping to turn her gig at the athletic club snack bar into a catering gig, but when she shows up to meet with Nadia, she finds the woman stabbed on her kitchen floor. With the police focusing on Val's cousin, she needs to sort through the suspects and find out who had the perfect...

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This is the first book in "A Five-Ingredient Mystery Series". The protaganist, Val Deniston has lost her job as a publicist for cookbooks and chefs after a serious car accident, so she has come home to Chesapeake Bay. She has been asked by her mother to assist her grandfather in fixing up his old...

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Val Deniston has returned to Bayport, Maine, to live with her uncle and run the café at the local fitness club. She's settling into her new life after a tragic accident left her with no memory of the night it occurred. She's gaining new friends and working on creating a cookbook in her spare tim...

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Not recommended This was slow moving and quite frankly, boring. Takes too much time to set seen. She is, apparently quite fat phobic by what she says about others. As someone writing a food mystery how can you never have seen avocado or hearts of palm? Grandad is a particularly unlikable characte...