Pizza Lovers Mystery Series - Chris Cavender

As Chris, Tim Myers writes the Pizza Mystery Series which started in 2009. It features Eleanor Swift, Owner of Slice of Delight Pizzeria and takes place at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina

A Slice of Murder (Pizza Lover's Mystery Series #1)
Not too much happens in the sleepy little town of Timber Ridge, North Carolina—which is fine with pizza-purveyor extraordinaire Eleanor Swift. The spunky owner of A Slice of Delight is trying to mend her broken heart and could use a little quiet time. But when a late night delivery customer turns up dead, she's in for just the opposite in this delicious mystery series debut, featuring pizza as the prima character . . .

Pepperoni Pizza Can Be Murder (Pizza Lover's Mystery Series #2)
For once, it seems, no one is trying to pin a murder on Eleanor Swift, owner of the scrumptious pizzeria A Slice of Delight in the quiet little town of Timber Ridge, North Carolina. But someone has to answer for that body in her kitchen. . .and it looks like the final stop for Gregg Hatcher, her deliveryman, may be the state penitentiary. . . Includes Delicious Pizza Recipe!

A Pizza to Die For (Pizza Lover's Mystery Series #3)
hough it's a chilly October in Timber Ridge, North Carolina, Eleanor Swift is warm and cozy in A Slice of Delight, her scrumptious pizzeria. But she feels a shiver when snooty Judson Sizemore blows into town to open an upper-crust competitor. Worse, he has the nerve to get murdered right after he's seen causing a ruckus in Eleanor's restaurant. Now she and her saucy sister, Maddie, are the prime suspects. As Eleanor digs for clues to prove their innocence, her own suspect list grows longer than the local soccer team's pizza order—and life in Timber Ridge heats up like Maddie's five-alarm Volcano pie. . .
Includes delicious pizza recipe!

Rest in Pizza (Pizza Lover's Mystery Series #4)
Cozy towns like Timber Ridge, North Carolina—the home of Eleanor Swift’s delectable pizzeria, A Slice of Delight—don’t take well to prima donna celebrities. So no one is particularly pleased when TV host and famous chef Antonio Benet roars into town for a book signing and manages to insult Eleanor, her deliciously saucy sister Maddie, and everyone else within earshot. Insults are one thing, however…but a cold dish of murder is quite another…

Eleanor knows she’s on the menu of suspects who would bury a kitchen knife between the rolling-in-dough chef’s shoulders. But so is Beth, the owner of the bookstore, who may have some deep secrets to dish. Or Benet’s personal assistant, who very well may have had it with pampering his blowhard boss… and may even have some pie-in-the-sky ambitions of his own. And then there’s the TV producer—is it true the crusty chef was bellowing about going to another network before he reached his premature expiration date?

With her freedom—and even her looking-good-for-a-minute-there love life—on the chopping block, Eleanor’s got a seriously full plate. The only way out of this mess is a pretty tall order: deliver the real killer before she finds a knife in her back.

Killer Crust (Pizza Lover's Mystery Series #5)
Eleanor Swift isn't amused when Laughing Luigi—the sketchy frozen pizza dough baron—walks into her Timber Ridge, North Carolina, pizzeria. But the contract for his pizza-making contest seems on the up-and-up. . .and sprucing up her beloved pizzeria, A Slice of Delight, with $25,000 in first-prize money would truly be a dream come true. . .

Sneaky Luigi, of course, left enough wiggle room in that contract to change the rules. . .and maybe settle some old scores. It seems Eleanor and her sister Maddy aren't the only ones dishing the dirt on Luigi—the other contestants also know he's a rat in the kitchen. Which makes things all the messier when the pizza dough king fails to rise after being found on the floor. . .murdered, with a slice of poisoned pizza!

If Eleanor and Maddy want to find the real killer and win the $25,000, they're going to have to juggle seriously surreptitious sleuthing with pressure-packed pizza-making performances. . .before the real killer dishes them their own slices of death!
Includes delicious pizza recipe!

The Missing Dough (Pizza Lover's Mystery Series #6)
he only thing Eleanor Swift loves more then A Slice of Delight - her Timber Ridge, North Carolina pizzeria - is her sister Maddy. So when Maddy's cheating ex-husband Grant shows up with some pie-in-the-sky idea to win Maddy back, Eleanor is happy to see her sister swiftly show him the door. But they both know Grant isn't done yet...Especially when he picks a fight with Maddy's fiancee Bob in front of the whole town at the annual Founder's Day Festival. Naturally, when Grant is later found stabbed in the heart with a barbeque skewer, Bob is featured on the police chief's menu as Suspect No. 1. And when it turns out that Maddy stands to gain a different kind of dough - and lots of it - from Grant exiting this world, she and Eleanor know it's up to them to cook up an investigation to find the real killer. Was it that female singer at the festival who wanted a word with the recently deceased? Or maybe Grant's haughty sister, who's colder then a day-old pizza? Or Grant's "business partner," who seemingly had the opportunity, means, and motive to mortally skewer Maddy's ex-husband? Only one thing is for sure: Eleanor and Maddy need to turn up the heat and deliver this killer...or their next scrumptious pizza may be their last!