The Secret Ingredient Murders: A Eugenia Potter Mystery - Tapa dura

Chef-turned-sleuth Eugenia Potter leaves her Arizona ranch to take charge of her teenage great-nephew and great-niece at a vacation home on the Rhode Island coast, but their fun-filled holiday is soon turned upside down by the murder of Stanley Parker, her cookbook collaborator and a passionate recipe collector, in a mystery based on the character created by the late Virginia Price. 17,500 first printing.

e San Francisco Chronicle as "one of the most delightful new detectives to appear in years," Eugenia Potter is back in the kitchen -- hard on the case of a wily killer who has shattered the peace of an idyllic New England town.

The beloved detective and chef extraordinaire created by the late Virginia Rich continues her adventures in this delectable mystery, penned by Rich's collaborator, Nancy Pickard. Now Mrs. Potter returns to solve a family matter of the worst kind in The Secret Ingredient Murders.

Summoned from her Arizona ranch to take charge of her teenage great-nephew and his twin sister, Genia Potter takes a rental on the Rhode Island coast. Old acquaintance Stanley Parker is only too happy to welcome Genia to bucolic Devon. He has already put the boy to work in his greenhouse, and Genia and her great-niece are soon busily preparing for the tasting party that she and Stanley are hosting that evening at her cottage.