Jessica Conant-Park Books In Order

Gourmet Girl Books In Order

  1. Steamed (2006)
  2. Simmer Down (2007)
  3. Turn Up the Heat (2008)
  4. Fed Up (2009)
  5. Cook the Books (2010)

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Jessica Conant-Park Books Overview

Steamed

Susan Conant, the acclaimed author of the Dog Lover’s mysteries and the Cat Lover’s mysteries, now teams with her daughter for a new culinary mystery series featuring Chloe Carter known in the chatrooms as GourmetGirl, food connoisseur and survivor of failed romances. On a quest for the perfect meal and man she risks a blind date with a fellow food lover who’s stabbed to death before the check comes. Talk about a rocky love life. Chloe’s first date of the week is murdered. Her second date is with the prime suspect. The investigation plunges the amateur sleuth into the gourmet restaurant scene to discover a cutthroat world of killer competition, stormy love affairs, and a recipe for Baby Bok Choy Slaw to die for.

Simmer Down

After a trendy club owner is bludgeoned with a food processor, Gourmet Girl Chloe Carter finds the list of suspects longer than the line to get in to Simmer, her chef boyfriend’s hot new restaurant.

Turn Up the Heat

The Gourmet Girl returns to solve the murder of one bad egg. Chloe Carter has a lot on her plate exams for grad school are coming up, and her chef boyfriend needs her support as his fledgling trendy restaurant comes into its own. The staff of Simmer gets along like peti*ts pois in a pod, everyone pulling pranks on one another now and then. Everyone, that is, except for Leandra, a waitress who treats the busboys like chopped liver and can never take a joke. One morning, Leandra’s dead body is found in a fish truck. So people start to wonder: was this just a prank gone awry? Or did somebody actually want her to sleep with the fishes?

Fed Up

The latest in a series with ‘all the right ingredients fresh characters, a dash of humor and a sizzling romance.’Elaine Viets

Part time student Chloe Carter is planning her best friend’s wedding, working for her parents and glued to her chef boyfriend, Josh, as he competes to star in a new TV series. The premise: Josh hijacks unsuspecting grocery shoppers and prepares them gourmet dinners. Everything’s going great until one shopper drops dead.

With the cameras on him from the beginning, Josh is obviously innocent, but Chloe wonders: Was it one of Josh’s competitors? Or the deceased’s husband? Or someone on the crew?

Sifting through suspects, Chloe deals with wedding chaos and Josh’s erratic behavior. She’ll have to balance her plate while trying to catch a food felon…

Cook the Books

This Gourmet Girl has to take the heat-because she just can’t get away from the kitchen.

Chloe Carter desperately needs a job, so she takes one assisting a cookbook writer. Unfortunately it stirs up painful memories of her ex- boyfriend Josh, who left her for Hawaii. While compiling a book of recipes from Boston’s top chefs, she comes in contact with one of Josh’s friends, Digger. Chloe manages to stay cool until later she finds Digger’s apartment charred-with Digger in it.

Not believing that an expert chef would die from a grease fire, she sets about looking for Digger’s killer. But things get sticky when the tragedy brings Josh back to Boston-and back into Chloe’s life.

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