WHAT'S COOKING?

MURDER!

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You're going to love this murderously wonderful cookbook!

Hard-boiled breakfasts, thrilling entrees, cozy desserts, and more—this illustrated cookbook features more than 100 recipes from legendary mystery authors. 

Whether you're planning a sinister dinner party or whipping up some comfort food perfect for a day of writing, you'll find plenty to savor in this cunning collection. Full-color photography is featured throughout, along with mischievous sidebars revealing the links between food and foul play. 
 
Recipes include:
Mary Higgins Clark’s Celebratory Giants Game Night Chili
Harlan Coben’s Myron’s Crabmeat Dip
Nelson DeMille’s Male Chauvinist Pigs in a Blanket
Lee Child’s Coffee, Pot of One
Gillian Flynn’s Beef Skillet Fiesta
Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone’s Famous Peanut Butter and Pickle Sandwich
Charlaine Harris’s Very Unsophisticated Supper Dip
James Patterson’s Grandma’s Killer Chocolate Cake
Louise Penny’s Madame Benoît’s Tourtière
Scott Turow’s Innocent Frittata

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MY REVIEW

I’ve wanted this book from the first moment I saw it. I was blessed enough to have a friend give it to me one year on Buy A Friend A Book Day. I love it just as much as I knew I would! It totally supports my theory that food and mysteries simply go together.

THE MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA COOKBOOK features recipe from authors on all sides of the mystery spectrum. If you have a favorite mystery author, chances are they have a recipe in this book.

After a short but fun introduction, this cookbook gets right down to business and starts the offered recipes off with the Breakfast chapter. The chapters that follow are Appetizers, Soups and Salads, Entrées, Side Dishes, Desserts, and finally, Cocktails.

Recipes you’ll find are . . . Sugarloaf Café Sweet Rolls, Whole Wheat Wild Blueberry Lemon Pecan Muffins, Mystery Crackers, Cheesy  Garlic Artichoke Dip, Murderously Good Maine Chowdah, Mistaken Potato Salad, Zillion Calorie Mac and Cheese, Slow-Cooker Meatballs, Comfort Chicken and Sweet Potatoes, Lobster-Pesto Risotto, Simplest Ever Potato Pancakes, A Tomato Sauce for All Seasons, Mrs. Hudson’s Coffee Sheet Cookies, Cozy Southern Chocolate Chip Pudding Cake, The “Smoking Gun” Margarita, The Switchblade Cocktail, Killer Sweet Tea, and a whole lot more!

THE MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA COOKBOOK, ha something for everyone’s tastes. It would be so much fun to host a Murder Mystery Dinner and use recipes from this book for the meal. Your guests would be so impressed!

My only negative about this book is the shortage of photos. The ones featured are wonderful, but I think photos of all the recipes really should be represented. But don’t let that stop you from getting this unique cookbook. It would be a crime not to add this to your collection!

Check out this complete

list of authors included!

BETH AMOS - KATHLEEN ANTRIM - CONNIE ARCHER - FRANKIE Y. BAILEY - ADRIENNE BARBEAU - RAYMOND BENSON - KARNA SMALL BODMAN - RHYS BOWEN - SUSAN M. BOYER - SANDRA BROWN - LESLIE BUDEWITZ - CAROLE BUGGE - LUCY BURDETTE - ALAFAIR BURKE - LORENZO CARCATERRA - RICHARD CASTLE - DIANA CHAMBERS - JOELLE - CHARBONNEAU - LEE CHILD - C. HOPE CLARK - MARY HIGGINS CLARK - MARY JANE CLARK - HARLAN COBEN - NANCY J. COHEN - KATE COLLINS - MAX ALLAN COLLINS and BARBARA COLLINS - SHEILA CONNOLLY - THOMAS H. COOK - MARY ANN CORRIGAN - CATHERINE COULTER - DIANE MOTT DAVIDSON - NELSON DeMILLE - GERALD ELIAS - J. T. ELLISON - DIANNE EMLEY - HALLIE EPHRON - LINDA FAIRSTEIN - KIM FAY - LYNDSAY FAYE - SHARON FIFFER - JOSEPH FINDER - BILL FITZHUGH - GILLIAN FLYNN - FELIX FRANCIS - MEG GARDINER - ALISON GAYLIN - DARYL WOOD GERBER - SUE CRAFTON - CHUCK GREAVES - BETH GROUNDWATER - KAREN HARPER - CHARLAINE HARRIS - CAROLYN HART - GREG HERREN - WENDY HORNSBY - DAVID HOUSEWRIGHT - PETER JAMES - J. A. JANCE - TAMMY KAEHLER - LAURIE R. KING - LISA KING - RITA LAKIN - LOIS LAVERISA - ALLISON LEOTTA - LAURA LIPPERMAN - KEN LUDWIG - JOHN LUTZ - GAYLE LYNDS - MARGARET MARON - EDITH MAXWELL - WILLIAM BURTON McCORMICK - JOHN McEVOY - BRAD MELTZER - DAVID MORRWLL - MARCIA MULLER - ALAN ORLOFF - KATHERINE HALL PAGE - GIGI PANDIAN - SARA PARETSKY - JAMES PATTERSON - CHRIS PAVONE - LOUISE PENNY - TWIST PHELAN - GARY PHILLIPS - CATHY PICKENS - BILL PRONZINI - DEANNA RAYBOURN - KATHY REICHS - BARBARA ROSS - LAURA JOH HOWLAND - S. J. ROZAN - HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN - JUSTIN SCOTT - LISA SCOTTOLINE - L. J. SELLERS - KARIN SLAUGHTER - LINDA STASI - WENDY CORSI STAUB - CHARLES TODD - SCOTT TUROW - LISA INGER - LEA WAIT - MO WALSH - KATE WHITE - TINA WHITTLE - JACQUELINE WINSPEAR - BEN H. WINTERS - ANGELA ZEMAN

(Forgive me for any typos. That was a lot to type!)

I had a great time reading my way through this cookbook, and a plan to have a great time cooking my favorite recipes from it!

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