A Catered Christmas (Culinary Mysteries)
by Tim Hemlin
from Fawcett
MURDER WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS
It's six days until Christmas and Neil Marshall--Houston poet and gourmet catering chef--feels flatter than a fallen soufflé for the holidays. But when his grandfather shows up looking like old St. Nick, Neil hits bottom.
For once-feisty Grandpa Marshall is running scared, suspected of having murdered his mining partner back home in Colorado. It's up to Neil to beat the old man's betrayers to the draw. Otherwise, his goose will be cooked and his granddad's mining interests served up to a murderer on a silver platter.
Dead Man's Broth (Culinary Mysteries)
by Tim Hemlin
from Ballantine Books
TOO MANY COOKS
Houston's culinary luminaries all know each other . . . much too well. Perry Stevens is the city's hot caterer. Magazine publisher Agnes Berryman dishes up the last word on cuisine. And the city's most celebrated kitchen artist is TV chef Sherwood Welles. Suddenly Welles is super-famous--now that he's been brutally murdered. When prime suspect Perry Stevens is arrested, his chef (and part-time sleuth) Neil Marshall swears to hash out the truth.
If Wishes Were Horses...
by Tim Hemlin
from Fawcett
HARD TIMES IN HOUSTON
Neil Marshall is a graduate student in the University of Houston's creative writing program. He is also a poet. Graduate student and poet--hardly the world's most lucrative endeavors, especially for someone who has just embarked on a money-draining divorce. To make ends meet, Neil moonlights as a chef for a high-society caterer.
Just when his life seems bleakest, Neil's oldest friend, racehorse breeder Jason Keys, is murdered. And guess what! Neil becomes the prime suspect.
To save his neck, avenge his friend, and rescue a missing championship Thoroughbred, Neil penetrates the dark underworld of horse theft and illegal breeding. Neil's friends--his attractive writing teacher, his cooking colleagues, and a freckle-faced teenage horsewoman--cheer him on. But Neil knows if he fails, his goose is cooked. . . .
People in Glass Houses (Culinary Mysteries)
by Tim Hemlin
from Fawcett
CANDIDATE FOR MURDER
While congressional candidate Chip Gunn sweet-talks power brokers at his Houston fund-raiser, all hell breaks loose for catering chef Neil Marshall. In the kitchen, Gunn's guard is stabbed, and Neil's assistant is found gripping a bloody knife, swearing she never used it.
But when the victim vanishes, Neil and his friends become ensnared in a lethal mystery where innocence offers no protection . . . and where people in glass houses never throw stones, but shoot to kill. . . .
"Tim Hemlin is a tremedously gifted writer, and his kitchen scenes are pure seduction."
--Martha C. Lawrence, Author of Murder in Scorpio and The Cold Heart of Capricorn
"A WELCOME NEW VOICE IN THE MYSTERY FIELD."
--Earl Emerson
Whisper of Rage (Culinary Mysteries)
by Tim Hemlin
from Fawcett
A KILLING HEAT IN HOUSTON
It is just what graduate student (and part-time chef) Neil Marshall doesn't need: to witness the near-fatal shooting of legendary Houston P.I. C. J. McDaniels. Especially since the gunmen think Neil can identify them.
Before long, Neil's quiet academic life is irreparably shattered as he's sucked into a tornado of violence that cuts across Houston *from a mansion in River Oaks to an all-too-silent suburban home, from a secret hospital room to the bed of a fascinating woman. In Houston's sultry summer heat a deep-rooted hatred is maturing, and a whisper of rage is building to a roar. . . .
"A WELCOME NEW VOICE IN THE MYSTERY FIELD."
*Earl Emerson
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