<div>Foodie and sometimes sleuth Chloe Carter smells something fishy when a waitress from a popular new Boston restaurant turns up dead in a seafood delivery truck Having an executive chef boyfriend guarantees Chloe Carter the best table at Simmer, Boston&rsquo;s hottest new restaurant, any night of the week. But the Back Bay foodie&rsquo;s incredible comped dinners are usually enjoyed without Josh, whose pressure-cooker job has taken over his life. The same can&rsquo;t be said of Leandra, the pretty blond Simmer server whose body was just found in a seafood delivery truck. The truck belongs to Owen, the fianc&eacute; of Chloe&rsquo;s best friend, Adrianna. And Owen has no alibi for the night Leandra was strangled with her apron strings and dumped in his truck. But Chloe is sure he didn&rsquo;t do it. There are plenty of other people with motive to off the unpleasant waitress, starting with Leandra&rsquo;s lover&mdash;and Simmer&rsquo;s owner&mdash;Gavin Seymour. And now some expensive cooking equipment is missing, including a mandolin slicer, an eight-inch chinois, and Josh&rsquo;s favorite knife. If Chloe isn&rsquo;t careful while trying to clear Owen&rsquo;s name, the amateur sleuth could be next to sleep with the fishes! This ebook features mouth-watering recipes sure to satisfy more than just your appetite for crime. Turn Up the Heat is the 3rd book in the Gourmet Girl Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

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<div>An &ldquo;appealing heroine&rdquo; and her chef boyfriend take on a case of murder by food processor in this Boston-set culinary mystery. Includes recipes! (Publishers Weekly) After months between gigs, Chloe Carter&rsquo;s dishy boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, has just landed his dream job: executive chef at Simmer, Boston&rsquo;s soon-to-be hottest new restaurant. As Josh preps for a New Year&rsquo;s Eve grand opening, Chloe, on winter break from grad school, hooks him up with Food for Thought, an annual charity fundraiser. It seems like a win-win&mdash;Simmer will give the dining public a tantalizing taste of things to come, and Josh will showcase his culinary talents&mdash;until murder makes a late addition to the menu. It&rsquo;s not the kind of publicity Chloe was looking for. Now wealthy club owner Oliver Kipper is dead, bludgeoned to death. The murder weapon is a state-of-the-art professional-grade food processor that, unfortunately, belongs to Josh. By opening night, the list of suspects, including Josh&rsquo;s ex-girlfriends, is almost as long as the line to get into Simmer. Suddenly, Chloe&rsquo;s risking her life to unmask a killer in a town where murder is becoming an acquired taste. This ebook features mouth-watering recipes sure to satisfy more than just your appetite for crime. Simmer Down is the 2nd book in the Gourmet Girl Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

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<div>Boston foodie and amateur detective Chloe Carter has enough on her plate without someone dying on a reality TV show after dining on her chef boyfriend&rsquo;s lamb le poison Chloe Carter is ready for her fifteen minutes of vicarious fame. Her boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, is competing with two other chefs to win Chefly Yours, a cable reality series. The show takes place at an upscale market, where a random shopper is selected to be the lucky recipient of a home-cooked gourmet meal; the winning chef is then chosen by the viewers. But Josh&rsquo;s television career might be over before it starts when a shopper&rsquo;s wife, Francie, dies after dining on his signature lamb chops and pesto gnocchi. It wasn&rsquo;t Josh&rsquo;s cooking that killed Francie. It was a lethal dose of poison. In between planning her best friend&rsquo;s wedding and helping at her parents&rsquo; landscaping business, Chloe sifts through suspects ranging from Josh&rsquo;s rival contestants to pranksters who may have taken a joke too far. Was Francie the intended victim? Or was she simply in the wrong place at the wrong time? The discovery of her true identity and a secret Josh has been keeping conspire to disrupt the wedding as Chloe faces off against a killer ready to turn the impending nuptials into a fatal feeding frenzy. This ebook features mouth-watering recipes sure to satisfy more than just your appetite for crime. Fed Up is the 4th book in the Gourmet Girl Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

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<div>Chloe Carter&rsquo;s Internet date commits the ultimate gastronomic faux pas: He dies before dessert Ever in search of the perfect meal&mdash;and the perfect man&mdash;twenty-something grad student and food connoisseur Chloe Carter draws the line at speed dating. But when the Massachusetts native reluctantly signs up for Back Bay Dates, she&rsquo;s soon communicating with a guy after her own heart. According to his online bio, DinnerDude is Eric Rafferty, a blond, six-foot foodie. They meet at a five-star restaurant where everyone seems to know Eric, and he and Chloe are given the celebrity treatment. But their first date turns out to be their last: Before Chloe can say cr&egrave;me br&ucirc;l&eacute;e, Eric is found in the men&rsquo;s room, fatally stabbed in the neck. Suddenly at the center of an investigation into the life of a man she barely knew, Chloe plunges into the cutthroat world of trendy restaurants. Her romantic life picks up again when she meets sexy chef Josh Driscoll&mdash;who&rsquo;s also the prime suspect in Eric&rsquo;s murder. This ebook features mouth-watering recipes sure to satisfy more than just your appetite for crime. Steamed is the 1st book in the Gourmet Girl Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

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<div>It&rsquo;s a recipe for disaster when Chloe Carter takes a job working for a cookbook writer&mdash;and plunges into a sizzling stew of malice and murder If you can&rsquo;t take the heat . . . Gourmet girl Chloe Carter is keeping busy with grad school and spoiling her best friend&rsquo;s three-month-old son. Now, courtesy of Craigslist, she has a new job as assistant to cookbook author Kyle Boucher&mdash;a job that stirs up painful memories of her ex-boyfriend Josh, who chose the shimmering beaches of Hawaii over a life with her on the mean streets of Boston. The gig heats up when Boucher asks her to compile a book of recipes from Boston&rsquo;s top chefs. Chloe leaps from the frying pan into the fire when she arrives for a meeting with Digger, one of Josh&rsquo;s friends and a rival chef, and discovers a dead body instead. Digger died of smoke inhalation from a blaze that started in his kitchen. Unable to believe that an executive chef would allow a grease fire to get so out of control, Chloe starts an unofficial search for the murderer. As if she didn&rsquo;t have enough on her plate already, now Josh is back in town. Chloe must decide where her future truly lies, but as a killer prepares to strike again, the amateur detective will find herself racing against time to protect those nearest and dearest to her. This ebook features mouth-watering recipes sure to satisfy more than just your appetite for crime. Cook the Books is the 5th book in the Gourmet Girl Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

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<div>Bostonian foodie Chloe Carter is after the perfect meal and the perfect man&mdash;but death keeps finding her at the dinner table&mdash;in these three mysteries. Grad student and food connoisseur Chloe Carter has had more success navigating the gastronomic treasures of Boston than finding love. And when murders are linked to upscale restaurants, she must use all her culinary and investigative expertise to solve the cases. Steamed: Chloe meets Eric, her online match, at a five-star restaurant. But before dessert is even served he&rsquo;s found dead in the men&rsquo;s room. Suddenly, Chloe is plunged into the cutthroat world of trendy restaurants and murder investigations. Along the way she connects with a sexy chef&mdash;but is he Eric&rsquo;s killer? Simmer Down: Chloe&rsquo;s dishy boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, has just landed his dream job as executive chef at the new restaurant Simmer. As he preps for a New Year&rsquo;s Eve grand opening, Chloe hooks him up with Food for Thought, an annual charity fundraiser. Everything is going perfectly&mdash;until murder makes a late addition to the menu. Turn Up the Heat: Having an executive chef boyfriend guarantees Chloe the best table at Simmer, Boston&rsquo;s hottest new restaurant, any night of the week. So when the body of one of Simmer&rsquo;s waitresses is found dead in a seafood delivery truck and expensive cooking equipment goes missing, Chloe is on the case.</div>

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The Gourmet Girl Mysteries Volume One

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