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A Key West Food Critic Mystery

Book Review: A Dish to Die For by Lucy Burdette

By John Valeri

August 15, 2022

Nationally bestselling author and unrepentant foodie Lucy Burdette is the pseudonym of Roberta Isleib, a clinical psychologist who penned the Golf Lover’s and Advice Column Mysteries. Last fall, Burdette published her first standalone suspense novel, the decidedly uncozy Unsafe Haven. This August, she returns with A Dish to Die For—the twelfth Key West Food Critic…

Cooking the Books: A Deadly Feast by Lucy Burdette

By Doreen Sheridan

May 22, 2019

In the ninth book of the Key West Food Critic mystery series, our heroine, Hayley Snow, is getting ready for her impending wedding to the man of her dreams, Detective Nathan Bransford. While this should be one of the most exciting times of their lives, very little is going to plan. For a start, though…

Cooking the Books: An Appetite for Murder by Lucy Burdette

By Doreen Sheridan

May 15, 2019

In this very first book of the Key West Food Critic Mystery series, our heroine, Hayley Snow, hasn’t yet acquired her dream job as a food critic but is very much enamored of her new home at the southern tip of Florida. She moved down to the island just a few months earlier to live…

Cooking the Books: Death on the Menu by Lucy Burdette

By Doreen Sheridan

August 29, 2018

This is the eighth Key West Food Critic mystery novel but my first encounter with the series, and wow, I can see why people are raving! Lucy Burdette brings the Florida island of Key West to such vivid, colorful life that I want to hop on a plane and fly down to stay on a…

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: April, 2016

By Crime HQ

March 15, 2016

Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we got our first taste of spring with March's releases; this month—we keep the good times rolling with some great new titles! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you…

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