New Release: AN ITCH FOR DANGER (An Izzie Di Sante Mystery Book 3) by Christa Nardi

About the Book

Izzie Di Sante loves a challenge but not so many on the menu at once. With sudden personnel changes, she’s juggling the staff schedule for the family restaurant. Her sister, Chloe drops startling news, and Izzie’s itching to chase down a new cold case. Besides an excuse to see Henry, she empathizes with the victim’s sister, who wants answers. Answers the local police haven’t been able to provide. Izzie searches for even the most tenuous lead to the killer, only now both Izzie and the victim’s sister have targets on their back. Just when she thinks she’s got it under control, yet another surprise pops up! The dishes Chloe creates are yummy, only Izzie needs to figure out the killer’s recipe for murder and soon. 

An Itch for Danger is the third book in the Izzie Di Sante mystery series. Each book is a stand- alone cozy mystery with visions of Chloe’s cooking and baking, mixed with Izzie’s itch to investigate cold cases. Through 4/5/2023, it's available for 99cents to celebrate the release!

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New to the series? Let me introduce the recurring series characters:

Isabella (Izzie) Di Sante is almost 30 years old and not quite living the dream. She's a reluctant restauranteur, having taken over the family restaurant - Cenare - when her parents died. Her passion though is for investigative reporting. She lives above the restaurant in Pinewood, Maryland, a small town south of Baltimore. She's balancing all she needs to do at the restaurant with digging into issues, or more recently, cold cases. In An Itch for Danger, the cold case is a young woman, 20 years old, found murdered. 

Chloe Di Sante is Izzie's younger sister, in her mid-twenties, who must have inherited the restaurant and chef gene - the one Izzie didn't get. Chloe is the chef for Cenare and a foodie. Her greatest pleasures are coming up with new recipes and dishes to try out on the menu, and more recently, Ryan Templeton. 

Brook Harmon is the employee at Cenare with the greatest longevity. She's worked there since before Izzie was born. She's been like a second mother to Izzie and Chloe and her loyalty is beyond question. Brook is also bossy, a germaphobe, and not particularly happy with changes being made to the menu or kissing in the kitchen.

Henry Jacobs is the Uber driver Izzie used when she first investigated a case in Halcyon Springs. She opted to use Ubers to make it more difficult for anyone she met with to track her. Only Henry, with his background as a police officer before he was injured, is curious about her investigation and drives her around, off the clock. 

Detective Evan Wheeling is the detective in Halcyon Springs, where Henry previously worked. He's the only detective in the small town and stalled investigations get pushed to the side. He's amenable to Izzie trying to chase down information to help him out. 

Of course, for each of the books, there are other characters who recur (restaurant workers and others who live in Pinewood, for example) as well as the victims and others who are involved in each mystery.  

Here are the first two books in the series and the prequel:

Reawakening the Itch (An Izzie Di Sante Mystery Prequel) - FREE 3/27-3/29

An Itch for Justice (An Izzie Di Sante Mystery #1) 

The Itch of Murder (An Izzie Di Sante Mystery #2)

If you like word searches, here's one for you with a focus on An Itch for Danger!  

https://thewordsearch.com/puzzle/5440744/an-itch-for-danger-word-search/