The Taverna Affair — Joanne Pence

A dead body washes up on the shore, a mysterious woman hides too many secrets, and whispers of an international criminal ring fill the night...While would-be chef Angie Amalfi nervously awaits her engagement party with her swoon-worthy fiancé, Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith, her clueless neighbor Stan finds himself swept into a whirlwind romance with a mysterious woman. Before he knows it, his quiet life is in a complete upheaval.As if that weren't enough, Angie's fiance and her father are forced to work together to solve a mystery on their own--one they fear Angie or her mother learning about. But then, as murders happen around the Greek Taverna where Stan met his lady-friend, and as the murders shift closer to home, Angie's got to solve a crime messier than her mother's famous spaghetti sauce—and somehow still get through her engagement party without a full-blown family meltdown. Will she save Stan's love life, her parents' marriage, maintain her sanity, and still pull off the engagement party of the year?Don't miss the next mouthwatering chapter in Angie's deliciously dangerous life!NOTE: The main characters in this story appear in an early mystery series by the author. This is an updated version of the mystery, Courting Disaster.