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Dinner Club Mystery series

Cooking the Books: Marinating in Murder by Linda Wiken

By Crime HQ

March 21, 2018

Event planner JJ Tanner is looking forward to a picnic outing with her Culinary Capers club—a group of friends who meet to choose recipes from a cookbook one member picks each month to put together a dinner from. The gang has met up in the driveway of one member, Alison Manovich, to convoy over to…

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: March 2018

By Crime HQ

February 15, 2018

Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we kept warm with great February cozies; this month, welcome spring with killer March reads! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to read next! Like this…

Cooking the Books: Roux the Day by Linda Wiken

By Doreen Sheridan

March 15, 2017

The 1st book in the Dinner Club Mystery series, Toasting Up Trouble, introduced us to Linda Wiken’s excellent palate. The follow up, Roux The Day, continues to serve up exquisite recipes, this time from a very thematically appropriate source. Beth Brickner, one of the members of the Culinary Capers cookbook club to which our heroine…

Roux the Day by Linda Wiken: A Visual Guide

By Adam Wagner

February 15, 2017

GIFnotes: Giving you the basic plot summary of an upcoming book with the help of the Graphics Interchange Format. This week, casino night on a cruise ship turns deadly! Take a visual tour of Linda Wiken's 2nd Dinner Club Mystery, Roux the Day, with GIFnotes!

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: March, 2017

By Crime HQ

February 15, 2017

Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we offered some great books to get out of the snow with February's releases; this month, welcome in spring with March's amazing new cozies! Let us know in the comments how you like it and…

Cooking the Books: Toasting Up Trouble by Linda Wiken

By Doreen Sheridan

July 13, 2016

This first novel in the brand new Dinner Club Mystery series introduces our heroine, JJ Tanner, an event planner with a penchant for the dramatic, and the members of the Culinary Capers Dinner Club. Each month, one member of the club picks a cookbook for the whole group to try, culminating in a delicious themed…

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: July, 2016

By Crime HQ

June 15, 2016

Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, the books kept getting hotter with June's releases; this month it's nothing but fireworks with all of July's titles! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to…

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