This eagerly-awaited follow-up to the Agatha and Macavity Award finalist, A Taste of Murder, features more crime and nourishment from today's foremost writers of crime fiction. With more than 130 recipes from an entirely new gang of mystery authors, A Second Helping of Murder lets fans enjoy the culinary cravings of such favorites as Elizabeth George, Dick Francis, Elizabeth Peters, Robert Barnard, Claudia Bishop, Alexander McCall Smith, Linda Barnes, George Pelecanos, and dozens more. Whether "meating out justice" or serving up "red herrings," contributors have provided the cherished recipes of their fictional sleuths or shared a personal favorite. Classic recipe recreations celebrate felonious fare from time-honored mystery writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, David Dodge, and Roald Dahl. There is even a crossword puzzle from Nero Blanc. Once armed with this collection of tasty recipes, the scene of the crime most definitely will be the kitchen.

Reviews

Poisoned Pen Press in Scottsdale, Arizona, recently published two cookbooks made up of recipes donated by mystery authors: A Taste of Murder and A Second Helping of Murder. Dubbed Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers. Each book offers 150 recipes with brief stories about how they relate to the writers' books...Broken into sections like A Criminal Past-a and Meating Out Justice, the recipes in the books manage to be both usable and entertaining...Chock full of quirky and delicious recipes and cooking lessons (like Anthony Bourdain’s How to Cook Pasta without Getting Whacked) these books are a feast for gourmands and mystery lovers alike. So belly up to the bar, name your poison, have a snack of red herrings and enjoy some murderously good food.

-- Mark Terry, The Oakland Press (MI)

Note: A portion of the profits from both books is being donated to Wholesaler to the Hungry,

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"A second helping of easy to follow clues (recipes) is provided to those armchair sleuths who appreciated A Taste of Murder. A new bunch of suspects provide either their favorite recipe or that of their hero so that the readers obtain well over a hundred helpings from a wide gamut of writers including Poe. As this reviewer did with the first book "The Set Up" was simple, and I used my personal Watson as a food taster so he would have "No Bone to Pick" (for now) about time on book reviews vs. cooking. However, even providing him with "Tough Cookies" and his "Just Desserts", Watson found the clues that led to trying the entrees from sections such as "Murder Most Fowl" and "Mealing Out Justice".

Watson enjoyed the meals and desserts while this reviewer appreciated the tidbits about some of the genre's favorite writers and their character. The tome is fun as it deftly combines genre information within a diabolically delicious cookbook (the meals not the book). Only one "Red Herring" surfaced, Watson expects more cooked meals leaving me "In the Soup" over the "Crumby Situations." –Harriet Klausner