Tuscan Cooking School Mystery #03: Evil Under The Tuscan Sun

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Nell Valenti is at ease when managing a farm to table cooking school in sun-dappled Tuscany, but begins to feel the heat when tasked with catching a killer, in this engaging Italian-set cozy mystery series. When a wealthy New York philanthropist pays top dollar for a private, four-day ziti workshop, Nell Valenti wants everyone at the Orlandini cooking school focused on the task at hand. But complications abound when Nell' s boyfriend Pete Orlandinirushesto Rome for an unexpected business trip, Chef Orlandini is more preoccupied with a potential spot on an American cooking show than preparing for the workshop, and an uninvited woman sneaks into the villa to inspect Pete' s olive grove. The last disturbance proves deadly, and when the woman' s body is found in the grove, Nell must investigate before her hopes for the workshop, like the olives, are crushed. Nell now has another item on her checklist--keep the Orlandinis out of trouble and the wealthy ziti-lovers happy while she looks into the stranger' s past. When Nell discovers that for one of the Orlandinis, at least, the murder victim was not such a stranger after all, she' ll learn that when a detective goes digging in Italy, she' d better be ready for truffle.