If Cooks Could Kill

by Joanne Pence

  Romantic Times

  “[Pence] titillates the sense, provides a satisfying read, and arouses a hunger for yet another book in this great series.”

  Crescent Blues Reviews

  “If you love books by Diane Mott Davidson or Denise Dietz, you will love this series. It’s as refreshing as lemon sherbet and just as delicious.”

  Under the Covers

  “Pence’s tongue-in-cheek humor keeps us grinning.”

  San Francisco Chronicle

  Other Angie Amalfi Mysteries by Joanne Pence

  BELL, COOK, AND CANDLE

  TO CATCH A COOK

  A COOK IN TIME

  COOKS OVERBOARD

  COOK’S NIGHT OUT

  COOKING MOST DEADLY

  COOKING UP TROUBLE

  TOO MANY COOKS

  SOMETHING’S COOKING

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Excerpts copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 by Joanne Pence.

  IF COOKS COULD KILL. Copyright © 2003 by Joanne Pence. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Library of Congress data available upon request.

  EPub Edition JANUARY 2012 ISBN: 9780062191151

  Print Edition ISBN: 9780060548216

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