Death in Aramezzo: Murder in an Italian Village, Book 1

Small villages keep big secrets.

Chef Stella Buchanan, rising star in the Manhattan restaurant scene, suddenly finds herself blackballed, without a job or any prospects. She retreats to Aramezzo, her family's ancestral village in Italy. Her plan: sell the abandoned bed-and-breakfast and use the money to start over.

Her mother never had a nice word about the quaint Umbrian town, so Stella is resistant to the warm welcome of the locals: a quippy trash collector, an eccentric bookstore owner, a...