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Hayley Powell food & cocktail mysteries

Author:
Hollis, Lee
Meier, Leslie
 
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Star rating for Death of a Kitchen Diva
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A bowl of chowder is a Maine food writer's last meal in this "delicious and satisfying" mystery (Carolyn Hart, New York Times-bestselling author of the Death on Demand series).

Single mom Hayley Powell is barely keeping her leaking roof over her head in Bar Harbor, Maine, when her boss at the Island Times gives her a new assignment—taking over the paper's food column. Hayley's not sure she has the chops—she's...
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Star rating for Death of a Country Fried Redneck
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Hayley's serving home cooking to a country star—and solving a roadie's murder—in this tasty mystery: "Snappy pace, fun characters, and a clever plot." —Library Journal

Local food and drink writer Hayley Powell thinks she's done solving murders in scenic Bar Harbor, Maine. But when a taste of the South comes to New England, Haley's following another recipe for disaster . . .

As...
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Star rating for Death of a coupon clipper
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"Hayley Powell, food and cocktails columnist for Bar Harbor's Island Times, is ... well, kind of broke. So when she's selected for that extreme coupon-clipping reality game show coming to town she's thrilled, especially when her competition is nasty nurse Candace Culpepper. But when Haley stumbles across a face-down-in-the-snow Candace--scissors gleaming between her shoulders--she knows the next thing she'll be selected for will probably be a police...
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Star rating for Death of a chocoholic
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"Fed up with dating after a disastrous setup, the only thing Hayley wants to snuggle up to is a box of made to order chocolates from plus sized, plus mouthed chocolatier Bessie Winthrop. But when Bessie is found dead in her kitchen, only Hayley suspects that Bessies "heart attack" might actually be a candy coated murder. Turns out Bessie had more enemies than a boxful of chocolates, each one a suspicious flavour. Its sticky business juggling a job,...
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Star rating for Death of a Christmas caterer
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"Office Christmas parties can sometimes mean career suicide--but they rarely lead to murder. Hayley thought Garth Rawlings would be the perfect caterer for this year's bash, but when the gourmet sees her budget, he goes galloping. Unfortunately, his run is short-lived. Garth is found dead on the floor of his kitchen with his delectable creations burning in the oven. Faced with a spread of suspects, Hayley is determined to discover who would want to...
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Star rating for Death of a Cupcake Queen
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The food and cocktails columnist at a local paper in Maine attends a lot of events—but her high school reunion will be murder . . .

On the eve of her high school reunion, Hayley Powell dreads seeing the trio of mean girls who used to torment her: Sabrina Merryweather, Nykki Temple, and former prom queen Ivy Foster. These days Ivy wears a different crown as the cupcake queen—and flaunting her success is just the icing...
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Star rating for Death of a bacon heiress
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Becoming a local culinary celebrity in Bar Harbor, Maine, opens lots of doors—but behind one of them, a killer is lurking . . . Includes recipes!

When food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell is invited to do a cooking demo on one of daytime's most popular talk shows, it's a welcome distraction from her empty nest blues. And the newfound fame certainly has its perks—especially when Olivia Redmond, the posh bacon heiress...
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Star rating for Death of a Pumpkin Carver
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8.
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4 stars
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A sleuthing food writer must cope with a visit from her ex-husband—and it gets even worse when he becomes a suspect in a homicide . . .

For Hayley Powell, food and cocktails columnist for the Island Times, Halloween is all about costumes and holiday treats—until a killer crashes the party . . .

This Halloween, Hayley can't imagine a worse trick than her ex-husband Danny returning to Bar Harbor....
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Star rating for Death of a lobster lover
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9.
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In a Maine fishing village, she's tailing a killer . . . "This funny and quick-paced series keeps getting better." —RT Book Reviews

Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell is off on a girls' getaway with her two best friends. But soon they'll have to get away from a killer . . .

The quaint fishing village of Salmon Cove, Maine, seems like the ideal location for a girls' weekend with Hayley's...
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Star rating for Death of a cookbook author
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10.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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At a celebrity cook-off in Maine, murder is spoiling everyone's appetite . . . "This funny and quick-paced series keeps getting better." —RT Book Reviews

Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell will be cooking alongside top chefs at a cookbook author's party. But a killer plans to ruin her appetite . . .

When Hayley Powell's idol, cookbook author and TV personality Penelope Janice, invites her...
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Star rating for Death of a wedding cake baker
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For Matron of Honor Hayley Powell, catching a half-baked poisoner before her friend's wedding will be icing on the cake . . .
 
Liddy Crawford, best friend of food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell, is getting married. The wedding is the talk of the town in Bar Harbor, Maine, including snide gossip about the age gap between the bride and her groom, local lawyer Sonny Lipton. But the cruelty of the comments is nothing compared to...
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Star rating for Death of a blueberry tart
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12.
Average Rating:
3 stars
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It may not be front page news, but Island Times food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell is now happily married. Before she can set sail on her honeymoon cruise, however, Hayley's mom, Sheila, pays an impromptu visit—and promptly becomes the prime suspect in a murder.

The victim is Sheila's old high school rival, Caskie Lemon-Hogg, known for her homemade blueberry pies and her home-wrecking flirtations. As Hayley teams...
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Star rating for Death of a wicked witch
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13.
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When a local food truck owner dies tragically while catering a Halloween party, reporter Hayley Powell is fast on the case and finds herself caught between witnesses and witches as she tries to catch a killer.
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Star rating for Death of an Italian chef
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14.
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3 stars
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When Chef Romeo, who just opened up a new restaurant in town, dies from complications after having a heart attack, Hayley Powell, whose hospitalized brother swears it was murder, must find the person who had no reservations about killing the chef.
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Star rating for Death of an ice cream scooper
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15.
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"Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell doesn't know what to believe when Lydia Partridge, the put-together owner of gourmet Bar Harbor Ice Cream, suddenly reveals fears that her husband may be having an affair. There's no other way to explain why Jamie, a respected professor, was spotted in a remote part of town with a much younger woman. But instead of learning the truth about the secret meeting, Lydia opens her freezer truck to find another...
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Star rating for Death of a clam digger
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"Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell usually reserves judgement for local cuisine, not the people who serve it. But staying neutral isn't so easy when caught between the biggest seafood rivals in town--her BFF Mona Barnes and the successful Leighton clan. Adding to a bitter decades-old surf-turf war between family businesses, a modern Romeo and Juliet story unfolds as Mona's son gets engaged to the daughter of her sworn enemy... Spiteful patriarch...
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Star rating for Christmas card murder
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5 stars
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A collection of three holiday-themed novellas includes Leslie Meier's "Christmas Card Murder," in which the discovery of an old Christmas card with a nasty message finds Lucy Stone investigating a decades-old murder.