It is my pleasure to share with you the cover reveal for the next book in the “Rita Calabrese” cozy mystery series, coming November 2020.
Book Synopsis
In the Italian-American community of Acorn Hollow, it’s Carnevale. The townspeople are reveling in masked balls and lively processions—and overindulging in meaty lasagnas and rich desserts like sanguinaccio and bomboloni.
For once, though, the town’s most ardent Italophile, matriarch-turned-reporter Rita Calabrese, is not in the holiday spirit. With no crime to solve, nothing to write about, and the clock ticking down towards her hasty and ill-advised Lenten resolution to stop interfering in (or, as she would say, “improving”) the lives of others, she’s staring down forty days of sheer boredom.
But that’s before her twin sister is blackmailed for a scandalous indiscretion and the world’s most uncouth, boorish houseguest shows up and refuses to leave until Rita gives him a crash course in feminism and romance, all to woo back his estranged wife.
Rita tries to adhere to her Lenten resolution, but fate has other plans. When a friend’s wine is poisoned at a masquerade ball and a local vintner’s glamorous fiancée is murdered, Rita bows to the inevitable and dives into an investigation rife with suspects and riven by romantic entanglements and family drama.
Featuring mouth-watering recipes for Italian classics, including lasagna and Italian Easter pie!
Publication Date: November 13, 2020
Publisher: Chesapeake Books
Format: E-Book and Print
Name of Series: Rita Calabrese
Number in Series: #4
Genre: Culinary Cozy Mystery
Author Facebook Page: maureenkloverswrites
Giveaway: What is your favorite Italian dish? Leave a comment below for your chance to win one of the first three books in the “Rita Calabrese” series (The Secret Poison Garden, A Secret in Thyme, or Murder in the Moonshine) or an ARC of Of Masques and Murder, print (U.S. only) or digital, winner’s choice. The giveaway ends September 7, 2020. Good luck everyone!
About the author
Maureen Klovers is the creator of the Rita Calabrese Italian-American culinary cozy series set in New York’s Hudson Valley. A former spy and middle school teacher, she has a keen sense of adventure: she’s hiked through the jungle to Machu Picchu, toured a notorious Bolivian prison with a German narco-trafficker, and fished for piranhas in Venezuela. She’s the mother of a toddler and a black Lab and enjoys testing recipes and speaking Italian.
All comments are welcomed.
This story sounds full of promise! I don’t know that I can pick just one dish. Lasagna is pretty tried and true and panettone is deliciously light for a holiday dessert.
I love all Italian food, but overall, PIZZA!!!!
Love the cover, and my favorite Italian dish is veal parmesano.
Should be a fun installment to this series. I love to eat and cook Italian food but I think my favorite would be shrimp fettuccine with Alfredo sauce.
I already have the first 3 books so please don’t enter me but my all-time fave Italian dish (and I love ALL of them, lol!) would have to be really, really good spaghetti and meatballs. Oh, and pasta carbonara. And I can’t leave out chicken piccata…. 😉
Lasagna is my favorite, but really I love all Italian food.
Pizza is probably my favorite food! Next up would be lasagna!
I love a good lasagna. Legallyblonde1961@yahoo.com
I like all Italian food, but my favorite is lasagna.
My favorite dish is spinach lasagne.
My favorite dish is a chicken soup with little homemade meatballs and lots of fresh Parmesan–I can’t recall the name of it, but I had a friend whose mother made it and sent it back with him at college–we couldn’t wait for him to share it.
That sounds amazing! I am going to have to see if I can incorporate that into a future book.
Yum! I’m not a vegetarian, so I prefer meat lasagna but that sounds good!
I love lasagna – made with my grandmother’s sauce! Thank you for the chance to win!
I love lasagna, made with my grandmother’s meat sauce! Thank you for the chance to win!
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