S'MORE MURDERS: A Five-Ingredient Mystery

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Murder strikes when Val caters a dinner on a yacht and re-creates the final meal served on the Titanic.

The victim and suspects in S'more Murders include Titanic memorabilia collectors, dealers, and thieves, as well as a descendant of a Titanic survivor. ​They all attend a dinner party on a yacht, commemorating the last meal served to the first-class passengers on that doomed ship. The menu here is what the passengers ate in 1912.

The first-class dinner menu, Titanic, April 14, 1912

The Titanic waiters brought the food to the table on silver platters, offered diners a portion of every dish, and suggested a wine to pair with the food. We have no way of knowing how much of this meat-heavy feast the passengers consumed. No recipes survive from the Titanic's kitchen, but recipes from that era tend to use butter and cream liberally. 

The dinner Val serves on the yacht in S'more Murders is a slimmed-down version of the original with fewer choices. She also modifies several dishes so vegetarians don't go hungry. She serves stuffed squash (vegetable marrow farci) for course three and a mushroom, rather than a goose liver, paté for course nine. But, at the request of the hostess, she adds a dish that wasn't invented until years after the Titanic had sunk—s'mores. 

No one gets to finish Val's Titanic-inspired dinner, and it's the final meal for one person on the yacht. Val cooks up a scheme to catch the killer before s'more murders go down.

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ISBN: 978-1-4967-0919-6

S'more Murders is available for pre-order from from Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Kensington, Indie Bound, Hudson, BAM. The publication date is July 31, 2018.