Few can compete with Natasha Smith when it comes to entertaining, but her childhood rival, Sophie Winston certainly tries.  While Natasha is known for her intricate centerpieces and painstakingly prepared gourmet meals, Sophie likes to keep things simple . . . real simple.  Natasha may have stolen the spotlight -- and Sophie’s husband -- but Sophie is determined to take home the prize at the Stupendous Stuffing Shakedown.  She just needs the right ingredients. 


However, Sophie’s search for the perfect turkey takes a basting when she stumbles across a corpse.  And when the police find her name and photo inside the victim’s car, they think she has some explaining to do.  Sophie will have to set her trussing aside to solve the murder or she’ll be serving up prison grub -- and that definitely wouldn’t be a good thing.

 
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The Domestic Diva Mystery Series in order --

  1. 1.  The Diva Runs Out of Thyme

  2. 2.  The Diva Takes the Cake

  3. 3.  The Diva Paints the Town 

  4. 4.  The Diva Cooks A Goose

  5. 5.  The Diva Haunts the House

  6. 6.  The Diva Digs Up the Dirt (coming June 2012)

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Sophie Winston’s sister, Hannah, is getting married -- again!  And if you ask Sophie, her future brother-in-law is no prince.  But is he a killer?  That’s the question on everyone’s mind when his ex-wife is found hanging from a pergola.  This is one event Sophie and her sister hadn’t planned on.


As hidden family secrets begin to come to light, Sophie finds the list of suspects is almost as long as the list of wedding guests.  Will the real killer be seated on the groom’s side or the bride’s?  Or will he be standing at the altar?  Either way, Sophie must solve the murder in time to stop her sister from making the biggest -- and possibly last -- mistake of her life.

Sophie Winston’s reclusive neighbor, Professor Mordecai Artemus, has died and left his sprawling home to his Pomeranian. Sophie feels a tad guilty for not having befriended Mordecai, but at least she’s not as heartless as her nemesis Natasha, who’s descended on the house with a crew of interior designers and contractors to renovate the place for the statewide Spring Home and Garden Tour.

 

Even Sophie’s been assigned a room to decorate: the family room, where the Professor did most of his living—and where he died. In the midst of cleaning, spackling and painting, Sophie uncovers a second body—but when next she looks it’s disappeared!  Now Sophie has to hammer away to discover the truth about the missing man, before her best friend gets nailed for murder….

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A Scrooge steals presents right from under Sophie Winston's family Christmas tree. Then her sister-in-law's father shows up with a diva girlfriend just a month after his separation. More than one person is thinking of committing a merry murder-until it actually happens! With many under suspicion for the deadly deed, can Sophie find the murderer and restore the Christmas spirit before it's too late?

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Domestic diva Sophie Winston is getting into the holiday spirit, and her decorations for a community haunted house are so good, it’s scary. Not to be outdone, rival domestic diva Natasha is throwing a spooktacular Halloween party at her house. But when Sophie arrives, she discovers one of Natasha’s guests dead in a hair-raising Halloween display and a pale, fanged party-goer fleeing the scene.


The cause of death is not immediately apparent, but the victim does have two puncture wounds on his neck. While Sophie’s boyfriend, homicide detective Wolf, investigates, rumors start flying faster than witches on broomsticks. Could the killer be a real vampire—the same one rumored to have lived in Sophie’s haunted house back when it was a boardinghouse? Good thing a domestic diva never runs out of garlic…

Determined not to be a garden-variety diva, Sophie Winston’s neighbor Natasha cultivates a plan to shine on television -- using Sophie’s backyard.  As the cast and crew of the make-over show Tear it Up with Troy bulldoze through her backyard -- and vacation -- Sophie retreats to her perennial boyfriend Wolf’s to replace a dead rosebush.  But her tender deed goes awry when she digs up a purse belonging to Wolf’s missing wife.


As speculations sprout, Wolf bolts, and then a body crops up in a garden.  Is Wolf’s thorny past raising an ugly head?  This is one case the domestic diva can’t let wilt on the vine.