But her snooping may turn out to be a recipe for her own murder.

It’s this love of language and culture that buoys her as she fights against her mother’s pressure to marry a lackluster local boy whose family money comes with strings attached. Mango, Mambo, and Murder, the first book in the series featuring Cuban-American cooking show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith, has been optioned for film and is now available in paperback. After he catches her breaking into the doctor’s apothecary, he enlists her help as eyes and ears to the places he can’t access, namely the Spanish-speaking community and the tawny Coral Shores social scene.Īs the ingredients to the deadly scheme begin blending together, Miriam is on the verge of learning how and why the women died. Her Cuban-American heritage, Miami, and Spanglish feature prominently in her work. Set in the small town of Desengaño in 1979, the novel focuses on an 18-year-old girl who ekes out a meager existence as an interpreter and tour guide. Reyes is the author of Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking, the second book in the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series and available now. Fuentes–especially after the morning show’s host collapses while interviewing him. Detective Pullman is not happy to find Miriam at every turn. Reyess Caribbean Kitchen Mystery debut, a savory treat fo. When a second woman dies soon after, suspicions coalesce around a controversial Cuban herbalist, Dr. Cuban-American cooking show star Miriam Quiones-Smith becomes a seasoned sleuth in Raquel V.

Gracias to her best friend, Alma, she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. But when the newly minted star attends a Women’s Club luncheon, a socialite sitting at her table suddenly falls face-first into the chicken salad, never to nibble again. Food anthropologist Miriam Quiñones-Smith’s move from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, puts her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Adding to her funk is an opinionated mother-in-law and a husband rekindling a friendship with his ex.

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