The sequel to Hot Dish Heaven: A Second Helping of Murder and Recipes, A Second Helping of Murder and Recipes, is scheduled to be nationally released on June 2, 2014. The book will be available in bookstores, gift shops, and libraries, as well as on Amazon.

It all began with hot dish. That’s right, hot dish.

Minneapolis cub newspaper reporter Emerald Malloy is assigned to gather “church food” recipes from the owner of Hot Dish Heaven, a café in Kennedy, Minnesota, a town of 193 in the Red River Valley, just south of Canada.