Catering hall mysteries
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"Mia is starting work at Belle View, her father's catering hall, a popular spot for weddings, office parties, and more--despite the planes that occasionally roar overhead on their way to LaGuardia and rattle the crystal chandelier. Soon she's planning a bachelor party for a less-than-gentlemanly groom. But it goes awry when the gigantic cake is wheeled in and a deadly surprise is revealed . . . Since some of her family's associates are on the shady...
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Mia Carina is back in the borough of Queens-in charge of the family catering hall, Belle View Banquet Manor, and keeping her nonna company. But some events-like murder-are not the kind you can schedule . . .
Mia's newly pregnant friend Nicole plans to hold a shower at Belle View-but Nicole also has to attend one that her competitive (and mysteriously rich) stepmother, Tina, is throwing at the fanciest place in Queens. It's a good chance for Mia...
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Astoria, Queens, is decorated within an inch of its life for the Christmas season, and Mia Carina is juggling her job at the Belle View catering hall with a case of murder...
Mia's busy with a full schedule of events at the family business-among them an over-the-top Nativity-themed first birthday party and a Sweet Sixteen for a teen drama queen. But her personal life is even more challenging. Her estranged mother has returned - and her lifelong friend...
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When her Italian-American family's catering hall hosts a casting call for a cheesy reality show, Mia Carina finds herself surrounded by wanna-be goombahs, phony girlfriends, and a real-life murder, sending her on a mission to make sure the killer gets jail time, not air time.
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In the fifth Catering Hall Mystery by Agatha Award-winning author Maria DiRico, series sleuth Mia Carina has finally steered her Italian-American family's catering hall, Belle View Banquet Manor, into becoming the premiere party site of Astoria, Queens. Now if only her presumed dead ex-husband would get out of the way.