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Chocolate Quake
Berkley, April 2003, 5.99, 304 pp. ISBN 0425189465 Food columnist Carolyn Blue accompanies her husband Jason to San Francisco where he is going to attend a scientific convention on toxins. She, being a dutiful daughter-in-law, gives Jason's mother a courtesy call, but only gets her answering machine stating that she is in the San Francisco Jail on a charge of first degree murder. When she tells Jason about it, he doesn't take it seriously since...
Death a L'Orange
Berkley, June 2002, 5.99, 288 pp. ISBN 0425185248 Who can turn down a journey to France at greatly reduce rates? Certainly not the Blue family, especially Carolyn who is writing a book about New Orleans cooking and hoping to get another book on French cuisine out of this trip. She is also a syndicated food columnist who writes pithy little comments on each day of her trip and faxes them back to her boss in New York City. She can't wait to ...
Holy Guacamole!
Berkley, Nov 2004. 5.99, 276 pp. ISBN: 0425199223 After traveling through several American states and quite a few foreign nations solving homicides along the way, Caroline finds a murder investigation in her own back yard in El Paso. She is attending the opera seeing a contemporary version of a Macbeth dealing in modern day illegal drug trafficking. Many are appalled at the changes artistic director Vladislav Gubenko made to the Bard's classic. ...
The Perils of Paella
Berkley, Jan 2004, 25.99, 304 pp. ISBN 042519390x Ever since her children have grown up, Carolyn Blue is doing things that she wants to do. She is a syndicated food columnist, published writer and jets around the world, accompanying her husband to science conferences. Of course she always finds time to solve murder investigations along the way. Carolyn is currently in Barcelona visiting her friend Roberta Hecht, who is working in the researc...

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Truffled Feathers
Berkley, Dec 2001, 5.99, 272 pp. ISBN: 042518272X Scientist Jason Blue specializes in how to clean toxins from the environment while his wife Carolyn is a gourmet chef. Carolyn receives an advance to write a cookbook on New Orleans cuisine. They travel to New York because Hodge, Bruce & Byerson want to hire Jason to help them with their “Cleaning the Environment Through Chemistry” mission while Carolyn meets with her editor. Upon the...