A culinary delight that will have readers salivating over the food and hungry for literary answers. FTC Full Disclosure The author sent me a copy of the book, hoping I would review it. “With a warm cast of characters and an ingenious main character, this is a series that will prove delightful for cozy fans.” - Parkersburg News & Sentinel on Stabbed in the Baklava Tina Kashian’s website is Hummus and Homicide by Tina Kashian. Perhaps the culprit is the wedding cake baker whose career Deacon nearly destroyed? Or the angry bride whose reception he ruined? With her maid of honor, Katie, busily planning Lucy’s wedding without her, Lucy will have to get to the bottom of this cold-hearted business in time for Kebab Kitchen’s mouthwatering Christmas celebration-and before her hometown’s holiday spirit washes out to sea. When Lucy Berberian quits her Philadelphia law firm and heads home to Ocean Crest, she knows what shes getting-the scent of funnel cake, the sight of the wooden roller coaster, and the tastes of her familys Mediterranean restaurant. Who would kill a man in cold blood during Ocean Crest, New Jersey’s most popular winter event? When Lucy learns the victim is Deacon Spooner, the reception hall owner who turned up his nose-and his price-at her wedding plans, she can’t help wondering who wouldn’t kill the pompous caterer. It’s the typical debut of a cozy mystery series with an amateur sleuth as suspect, and a few appropriate recipes. But her dive into the icy ocean is especially chilling when she finds a fellow swimmer doing the dead man’s float-for real. Hummus and Homicide by Tina Kashian Tina Kashian introduces a new culinary cozy mystery series with Hummus and Homicide, centered around a Mediterranean restaurant at the Jersey Shore. Not even her impending nuptials can keep Lucy Berberian, manager of her family-owned Kebab Kitchen, from the Jersey Shore’s annual Polar Bear Plunge. and Tina Linn Clouse, formerly known as the Harris County Does, were a pair of formerly unidentified murder victims found outside of Houston, Texas in January, 1981.