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Love, Death, and the Art of Cooking Kindle Edition

by Linda Griffin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
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Software engineer Reid Lucas loves to cook and has a history of falling in love with married women. When he leaves his complicated past in Chicago for a job in California, he runs into trouble and must call a virtual stranger to bail him out of jail.

Alyssa Knight, a tough street cop waiting for a church annulment from her passive-aggressive husband, is the roommate of the woman Reid calls for help, and she reluctantly provides bail for Reid.

He falls for her immediately, and cooking for her is an act of love. She just wants to be friends, but they keep ending up in bed together. When his boss is murdered, Reid is a suspect…or is he the intended target?
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"In the character of Reid, the author has concocted a leading man as sweet and delectable as the meals he cooks...each character is unique with flaws and complete inner lives. Love, Death, and the Art of Cooking is full of beautifully crafted and incredibly detailed prose." - InD'Tale Magazine


"This story will make you hungry. Food is definitely an art in this book, and it will make you want to join the author for a delicious dinner meal." - Still Moments Magazine

From the Author

I love reading and writing about food and cooking, even though I'm a terrible cook. The recipes Reid uses aren't original and couldn't be included in the book, but links to them can be found on the book's page on my website.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09827RTP2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Wild Rose Press, Inc (August 16, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 16, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4267 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 194 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 57 ratings

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Linda Griffin

Linda Griffin

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For more information, visit my website, sign up for my newsletter, and claim a free autographed copy of Seventeen Days. https://www.lindagriffinauthor.com/

I was born and raised in San Diego, California and earned a BA in English from San Diego State University and an MLS from UCLA. I began my career as a reference and collection development librarian in the Art and Music Section of the San Diego Public Library and then transferred to the Literature and Languages Section, where I had the pleasure of managing the Central Library’s Fiction collection and initiating fiction order lists for the entire library system. Although I also enjoy reading biography, memoir, and history, fiction remains my first love. In addition to the three R’s—reading, writing, and research—I enjoy Scrabble, movies, and travel.

My earliest ambition was to be a “book maker” and I wrote my first story, “Judy and the Fairies,” with a plot stolen from a comic book, at the age of six. I broke into print in college with a story in the San Diego State University literary journal, The Phoenix, but most of my magazine publications came after I left the library to spend more time on my writing.

My stories have been published in numerous journals, including Eclectica, Thema Literary Journal, Avalon Literary Review, The Nassau Review, and Orbis, and in the anthologies Short Story America, Vol. 2, The Captive and the Dead, and Australia Burns.

Member of RWA, Authors Guild, and Sisters in Crime

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Marsha R. West
5.0 out of 5 stars Intricate Story
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2022
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If you love cooking and eating, this book is for you. The mystery will keep you turning each page. Well done, Linda Griffin.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good if you like a lot of cooking
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2021
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After being woken up in the middle of the night, a woman pays the bail of a stranger. In return, he promises to pay her back by cooking for her. And, boy, they really get into the cooking.

The new guy strikes up an instant friendship with the two women. Then there’s the case of the dead man thrown in there.

As the title indicates, there’s love, death, and cooking—three distinct and unrelated facets that had an unusual blend in this story. Everything kind of feels thrown together, all these separate ingredients that don’t really go together. It’s like putting pickles and frosting together—unexpected and unique with a definite difference in taste. It may not necessarily be bad. In fact, it would be interesting as a one-time thing, but it’ll definitely make you think twice about it doing again.

For me, this had a nice romantic element. The writing was good, and the story has a nice, easy, and slow narrative. Story wasn’t really quite my taste though. First of all, I didn’t quite buy how this guy just shows up out of the blue and starts cooking for two strange women. And the death didn’t fit into it. Again, it just felt thrown in. There’s definitely a lot of cooking in it, so much that it actually makes you hungry reading it. In fact, I think the cooking takes up most of the story. For those that like a lot of cooking, you might want to give this book a try.
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jleblanc904
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun read
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2023
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Really loved the cooking aspect, I could imagine the visual, the aroma, the taste. Loved the playfulness and friendship among the main characters.
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reader2010
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2022
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Enjoyed it so well picked up another one by the same author.
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Lauren - Kindle Unlimited
3.0 out of 5 stars 3* ARC Review - A Man that Can Cook!!!
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2021
This book was a new author for me and sounded interesting when I read the synopsis from Hidden Gems, so I requested the ARC. This book has one of the most unique “meet cute”, by introducing the main characters when he calls a virtual stranger in the new town he is moving to, to bail him out of jail!! Reid Lucas has just moved to California from Chicago to work for a software company and gets pulled over for a DUI. They need a local person to post his bail, so he calls the only local person he knows and ends up meeting her roommate, Alyssa Knight, a local cop.
Since Reid is new to town, Alyssa’s roommate decides that they should befriend him and they learn that besides being a nice guy, he is an amazing cook! There is an instant attraction between Reid and Alyssa, but she fights it because she is coming off a bad marriage. Although the more she disputes it, the more they end up together (in bed). At the same time, there is an investigation going on into the death of Reid’s new boss. As this continues, it looks like Reid might not be a suspect but maybe the target.
In general, it was a good book but just did not have the hook I was looking for. The constant hot and cold in their relationship became annoying. The mystery played out but it just did not hold my interest of seem plausible.
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patti meis
4.0 out of 5 stars Your tummy will be growling!
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2023
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Learning while being throughly entertained. What an achievement! Loved the elements of suspense which added so much to the character development. And the intense pain and guilt of actions. Sometimes too much Catholic guilt! Really loved Learning about Pascal's Wager. Fascinating!
And all the food Reid makes. Crazy recipes included. Linda must be one FAB amateur chef. Totally enjoyable read and just the right length!
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Nancy Allen (The Avid Reader)
5.0 out of 5 stars Love, Death, and the Art of Cooking is everything the title says it is...
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2021
Love, Death, and the Art of Cooking is everything the title says it is. There is love, death and cooking. There is plenty of mystery surrounding the deaths alone to keep those pages rolling. Oh, and have I mentioned that there is a hot guy who knows how to cook?

Well, I am now. His name is Reid Lucas and he is new in town. Reid is a software engineer and has just moved from Chicago to California. After his interview, his new boss takes him out for a drink. Reid only has one drink but later on, he is arrested for DUI. In order to get out of jail, Reid needs someone local to post bail.

He calls the one person he knows or sort of knows in town in the middle of the night but he gets her roommate instead, Alyssa Knight. Alyssa is a police officer. Reluctantly, Alyssa agrees to go downtown and post his bail.

There is an instant attraction between Reid and Alyssa. Alyssa tries to take it slow as she is just coming out of a bad marriage but that seems to be impossible as they keep ending up in bed together. Reid is known for dating married women. Alyssa begins to wonder if Reid is only dating her because she is still married and wonders if he will drop her as soon as her divorce is final.

When Reid’s boss turns up dead he is the number one suspect. Reid couldn’t have killed him as he was with Alyssa at the time or could he? But it turns out that Reid just may have been a target himself. Is Reid guilty of murder? Or is he innocent? Is he a target? Does someone want him dead? Why is Reid on someone’s hit list? Why do they want him dead? What did he do? So many unanswered questions.

I enjoyed all the characters especially Reid and Alyssa. I loved the banter between Reid and Alyssa. I loved reading about all the food Reid cooked for Alyssa. It didn’t shock me in the least that a man knew how to cook as my husband is the cook in our family. He cooks and I clean up. Works great for us.

Once I picked up Love, Death, and the Art of Cooking it was so hard to put it down at times but life does get in the way on occasion leaving you with no choice. I wanted to keep reading as I followed all the twists and turns to find out whodunit. When I wasn’t reading I was thinking about all the characters and wondering who the murder was.

If you like a good romantic suspense novel then you are going to fall in love with Love, Death, and the Art of Cooking so I would like to suggest that you one-click your copy today!
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