Five books that wine & dine

Laurie Elizabeth Flynn is a former model who lives in London, Ontario with her husband and their four children. She is the author of three young adult novels: Firsts, Last Girl Lied To, and All Eyes On Her, under the name L.E. Flynn.

Her adult fiction debut, The Girls Are All So Nice Here, was named a USA Today Best Book of 2021, sold in 11 territories worldwide, and became an instant bestseller in Canada. Her new novel for adults is Till Death Do Us Part.

At CrimeReads Flynn tagged five books "that will satisfy any craving—and perhaps drive you to open a bottle of wine, shake up a cocktail, or make a restaurant reservation ASAP." One title on the list:

The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza

I can’t think of a more fun or immersive summer read than The Sicilian Inheritance. This story centers around Sara, who is newly divorced and reckoning with both the failure of her marriage and business when she receives a letter from her beloved great-aunt Rosie, who recently passed away, leaving Sara with a plane ticket to Sicily, the deed to a plot of land, and the revelation that Sara’s great-grandmother might not have died of natural causes after all. She flies there to find answers, and the Sicilian setting is described in sumptuous detail as author Jo Piazza takes us on a twisting, thrilling dual-timeline adventure. Passages about local cuisine are stunningly lush—I could almost taste the wine grapes and cannoli.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue