Inheriting a luxurious oceanfront resort under a condition that she must run it profitably for one year to claim full ownership, food critic Peyton Lockhart is targeted by dangerous rivals and is protected from a threat against her life by childhood friend and attractive FBI agent Finn MacBain.

When the senior food critic for Le Figaro is found face first in a plate of ravioles d'homard, there seem to be as many suspects as there are restaurants in the City of Light. Yet Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier feels she'll solve the case quicker than you can make an omelette aux fines herbes. Murders of food critics have become epidemic and Capucine is confronted with a dilemma: should she use her husband, himself a famous food journalist, as bait?...

A thirty-something American food writer moves to a Scottish village for one year to find inspiration--and love--and fulfill her dream of writing her own cookbook in this charming debut romance.

When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter--as well as a gift of saffron--to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-changing friendship begins. Joan lives in Los Angeles and is just starting out as a writer for the newspaper food pages. Imogen lives on Camano Island outside Seattle, writing a monthly column for a Pacific Northwest magazine, and while she can hunt elk and dig for clams, she's never tasted fresh garlic--exotic...

"Fed up with dating after a disastrous setup, the only thing Hayley wants to snuggle up to is a box of made to order chocolates from plus sized, plus mouthed chocolatier Bessie Winthrop. But when Bessie is found dead in her kitchen, only Hayley suspects that Bessie's "heart attack" might actually be a candy coated murder. Turns out Bessie had more enemies than a boxful of chocolates, each one a suspicious flavor. It's sticky business juggling a job,...