Nancy Fairbanks Books

Even if Carolyn Blue has to share a cabin with her mother-in-law, she'll still enjoy her Mother's Day present: a gourmet European cruise. That is, until both a female passenger and the double chocolate raspberry mousse go missing.

Arriving in Barcelona to employ her keen sense of taste for her column, food writer Carolyn Blue finds herself embroiled in mystery when she visits a modern art museum where a performance art piece about death results in murder. Original.

While at a post-production opera party, housewife-turned-food writer Carolyn Blue comes face-to-face with murder when the company's artistic director fatally succumbs to bad guacamole, forcing Carolyn to follow a recipe of secrets and revenge to catch a killer.

It's a culinary tour de France for Carolyn Blue and her family as they travel through Normandy and the Loire Valley with a group of academics. Where better to write about food than France? But when murder shows up on the menu, Carolyn is once again investigating crime as well as cuisine-and trying to stay one step ahead of a killer with an insatiable appetite. C'est la vie...