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Steak It or Leave It
2024
First Published
4.53
Average Rating
81
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When you’re working side by side… Sometimes you have to watch your back. Juicy steaks and other mouthwatering morsels mean that the Iron and Flame restaurant is busier than ever. For restauranteur and amateur sleuth, Lydia Thackery, that’s going to mean working some weekend shifts. It’ll be the first time in years that she’ll be bustling around the gleaming commercial kitchen right next to her ex-husband, Jeremy. The deep freeze isn’t the chilliest place in the kitchen when the two of them have the same shift, but they manage to make it through unscathed…until Lydia has her meal. She’s been poisoned. Fortunately, she survives, but now she’s faced with an ugly reality. Someone tried to poison her, in her own restaurant. That means the suspects are narrowed down to her ex, or her staff, and either possibility is a hard pill to swallow. Knowing her life is on the line after the first attempt, Lydia has to catch a killer before they try to strike again. The next time, they might succeed. Can she crack the case in time? Find out in this edge-of-your-seat Culinary Cozy Mystery!

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Author

Patti Benning
Patti Benning
Author · 194 books

https://www.facebook.com/Patti-Bennin... When Cozy Mystery author, Patti Benning, isn’t busy plotting the deaths of multiple fictitious characters, she loves to spend time hiking with her rescue dog, Max, who is her bestest writing buddy. ​Patti loves to cook and the food in her books has been tried and tested in her very own kitchen. She’s technologically shy, and stays away from social media a great deal, because it makes her feel more awkward and introverted than meeting someone face to face. ​Writing is the perfect job for her because in her books, she gets to explore all the topics she loves, food, animals, crafts and reading. She loves her readers dearly, and is thankful for the opportunity to share with them through her work.

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