Death in Aramezzo

<p><strong>Small villages keep big secrets.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>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. </p><p><br></p><p>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 burly cop with a penchant for historical romances an antiquarian who spins fantastical yarns and a former race car enthusiast who now drives a <em>porchetta</em> van. </p><p><br></p><p>Plus to Stella's chagrin the property comes with a belligerent cat.</p><p><br></p><p>Then her first guest dies under puzzling circumstances and suddenly Stella-a stranger in a small town-comes under scrutiny.</p><p><br></p><p>She must sniff out new clues and develop a theory of the murder as she would a recipe in her kitchen. Searching through ancient cobblestone alleys and across vineyards full of tangled vines can Stella discover the bitter truth before the town's buried secrets claim another victim?</p>