Cooked to Death: Tales of Crime and Cookery - Softcover

Carl Brookins is a crime fiction writer and reviewer. He writes three mystery series: Red Sky; Reunion; and The Case of The Yellow Diamond.

Jessie Chandler is an award-winning author. Her novels have garnered two Golden Crown Awards, an Independent Publisher Book Award, and a USA Book Award for LGBTQ fiction.

Pat Dennis is the award-winning author of Hotdish To Die For, Murder By Chance, Killed by Chance, Dead by Chance, Stand Up and Die, and (writing as Nora England) The Witches of Dorkdom.

Anne Frasier is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Her memoir, The Orchard, was an O, The Oprah Magazine Fall Pick, One Book, One Community read, a B+ review in Entertainment Weekly, and Librarians Best Books of 2011.

Sheyna Galyan is the National Indie Excellence Award-nominated author of the Rabbi David Cohen suspense series. Her newest book, Strength to Stand, was released in September 2015.

Kaye George, award-winning author, writes the mystery series Imogene Duckworthy, Cressa Carraway, People of the Wind, and, as Janet Cantrell, Fat Cat.

Rhonda Gilliland was voted best home cook of October 1998 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. She wrote, produced, and directed the award-winning Native American film Come and Get Your Love, and served as president of Twin Cities Sisters in Crime 2012-2015.

Emily Gorman is a member of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, The Loft Literary Center, and Sisters in Crime.

Ellen Hart is the author of 32 crime novels. She is a six-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery, a three-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award, a three-time winner of the Golden Crown Literary Award, and was made an official GLBT Literary Saint at the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival, 2005.

David Housewright won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America and three Minnesota Book Awards (Practice to Deceive, Jelly's Gold, and Curse of the Jade Lily). He was elected President of the Private Eye Writers of America in 2014.

Marilyn Jax, international award-winning author, is a retired Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). Jax teaches a Mystery Writers Workshop.

Jessica Ellis Laine's essays have appeared online in Women's Memoir and Literary Mama. Her novel in progress recently won the Mystery Writers of America Midwest's Hugh Holton prize.

Jessica (Jess) Lourey is best known for her critically-acclaimed Murder-by-Month mysteries, which have earned multiple starred reviews from Library Journal and Booklist.

Randi Lundell has translated several works from the German, but Death in the Narthex is her first published short story.

Molly Macrae writes the award-winning Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries from NAL/Penguin. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine since 1990 and she's a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction.

Michael Allan Mallory is the co-creator of the zoologist sleuth, Lavender Snake Jones. Michael's short stories have appeared in numerous collections. He is an active member of Mystery Writers of America and a former past president of Twin Cities Sisters in Crime.

Tes Sparks Always looking for a new challenge, Tes began writing fiction while working a variety of part-time jobs to pay the bills. She lives in Minnesota.