Joanne Pence is the author of a long running and successful romantic culinary mystery series. Fourteen books were published from 1993 to 2006.
Her amateur sleuth Angie Amalfi is an underemployed food writer and gourmet chef in San Francisco, romantically involved with homicide inspector Paavo Smith. As well as fitting in the culinary mystery niche, her books are followed by romance novelist enthusiasts and also have a humorous, screwball adventure flavor.
["Red Hot Murder." Publishers Weekly 19 Dec. 2005: 47. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 17 Aug. 2012.]
Joanne Pence was born Joanne Lopez in San Francisco. She attended the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
and worked from 1970 to 1998 as an operations analysis manager in the Social Security administration. She is married to David Pence and has two children.
She is a member of
Sisters in Crime
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, Novelists, Inc, and
Romance Writers of America
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.
Books
*Something’s Cooking, 1993.
*Too Many Cooks, 1994.
*Cooking up Trouble, 1995.
*Cooking Most Deadly, 1996.
*Cook’s Night Out, 1998.
*Cooks Overboard, 1998.
*A Cook in Time, 1999.
*To Catch a Cook, 00.
*Bell, Book and Candle, 02.
*If Cooks Could Kill, 03
*Two Cooks a Killing, 03.
*Courting Disaster, 04.
*Red Hot Murder, 06.
*The Da Vinci Cook, 06.
*The Thirteenth Santa ’11. Novella
*Misteltoe and Mayhem (with Judi McCoy,
Katherine Hall Page and Christi Ridgeway), 2004. (non series)
See also
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List of female detective/mystery writers
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* Abigail Adams, future first lady, detects in 1770s Massachusetts in a series by Barbara Hambly (as Barbara Hamilton) ...
References
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20th-century American novelists
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San Francisco Bay Area literature
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