Showing posts with label Rosie Genova. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rosie Genova. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Friday, October 28, 2022
Cozy Mystery Book Review ~ A DISH BEST SERVED COLD by Rosie Genova
by: Rosie Genova
Series: An Italian Kitchen Mystery
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release Date: May 9, 2022 (Re-issue)
Publisher: Two Roses Books
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A cold case and a boardwalk chase lead straight to murder …
When Victoria and her family host a 75th anniversary celebration at the Casa Lido, the party gets crashed twice—once by down-on-his-luck family friend Pete Petrocelli, and then by a seasonal hurricane, leaving much of Oceanside Park without power. When the lights come back on, a drunken Pete is the only casualty of the storm, found face down in the flooded carousel house on the boardwalk. Though his death appears to be an accident, Victoria remembers Pete saying he “knew things” that would make a good mystery story.
As Victoria digs deeper, she uncovers a missing family relative presumed dead in Italy, Atlantic City crime connections, and cold case that gets hotter by the minute. As it turns out, Pete did have a story to tell—one that nobody ever got to hear. . .
Monday, October 11, 2021
Friday, May 14, 2021
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Review ~ THE SEVEN-COURSE CHRISTMAS KILLER by Rosie Genova
by: Rosie Genova
Series: An Italian Kitchen Mystery
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release Date: November 27, 2016
Publisher: Beyond the Page
On Christmas Eve, someone might be sleeping with the fishes...
It’s December at the Casa Lido, which means only one thing: the Rienzi family’s traditional Christmas Eve celebration, including wine, song, and seven Italian seafood courses. As Victoria and Tim prep scungilli and calamari, Nonna directs the cooking until all is in readiness for the big night.
But the holiday cheer is interrupted by the attempted murder of Mayor Anne McCrae, who asks Vic to investigate. Trouble is, there are as many suspects as there are fishes on the Christmas Eve menu . . .
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Review & Giveaway ~ A DISH BEST SERVED COLD by Rosie Genova
A Dish Best Served Cold (Italian Kitchen Mystery, #3)
by: Rosie Genova
Series: Italian Kitchen Mystery
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Source: Berkley Prime Crime
The national bestselling author of The Wedding Soup Murder returns to the Jersey Shore where a killer is stirring up trouble during a hurricane…
At the Casa Lido, the end of summer means a party, and hit whodunit writer Victoria “Vic” Rienzi and her family are cooking like crazy for the restaurant’s seventieth anniversary celebration. As they chop onions and garlic, old family friend Pete Petrocelli stops by, saying he knows something that would make for a good mystery novel. Curious, Vic asks Nonna to elaborate on Pete’s claim and learns of a relative who mysteriously disappeared back in Italy…
The night of the party brings a crowd—and a full throttle hurricane. When the storm finally passes, everyone thinks they’re in the clear—until the first casualty is found, and it’s Pete. Remembering his visit, Vic isn’t certain Pete’s death was an accident and decides to dig deeper into his story. What she finds is meatier than Nonna’s sauce…
Friday, January 30, 2015
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Review ~ THE WEDDING SOUP MURDER by Rosie Genova
Victoria Rienzi came home to the Jersey Shore to write a new book, learn the family restaurant business, and practice the fine art of Italian cooking. But when delicious dishes are paired with murder, Vic has a little too much on her plate…
When Vic asked her nonna for more responsibility in the kitchen, she didn’t mean forming a thousand tiny meatballs by hand for the family’s famous wedding soup. The dish is to be served at the reception for a close family friend at the exclusive Belmont Country Club. And once there Vic has to deal with a demanding bridezilla and clashes in the kitchen—between the staff and servers, between two egocentric head chefs, and between the country club president and…well…everyone.
The wedding comes off without a hitch—until the body of the club’s president is found on the beach below a high seawall. Now Vic will need to use her noodle to find out who pushed whom too far…before she’s the one who lands in the soup!
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