A Dish Best Served Cold: An Italian Kitchen Mystery

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