Delia Rosen Books In Order

Publication Order of A Deadly Deli Mystery Books

Delia Rosen
Delia Rosen is a Brooklyn native and writes the “Deadly Deli Mystery” series.

She spends her time between writing and hunting down the best bagels that she can find.

“A Brisket, A Casket” is the first novel in the “Deadly Deli Mystery” series and was released in 2010. Murder’s on the menu in a savory debut. Gwen (nee Katz) Silver heard about the brisket at her uncle’s Jewish deli, Murray the Pastrami Swami, the only one of its kind in all of Nashville, Tennessee, was to die for. However she never knew that this was to be taken literally.

When Gwen discovers that she has inherited Murray’s, this native New Yorker leaves her messy divorce and chaotic career behind in order to start over in Nashville. However this venture seems to be doomed right from the start. Murray’s taken his secret list of food suppliers and recipes to the grave with him, and Royce Sinclair (ruthless real estate developer) won’t stop until he’s sandwiched Murray’s into his already overfilled portfolio.

Then on Kosher Karaoke Night, Buster Sergeant (longtime customer) bites into his brisket, and he bites the dust. The coroner claims it is food poisoning, however Gewn is not convinced. Now, help from hunky police detective Beau McClintock, “Nashville Katz”, which is what Gwen’s nicknamed, is going to find herself adding “private investigator” to her resume, as well as a new love to her life.

“One Foot in the Gravy” is the second novel in the “Deadly Deli Mystery” series and was released in 2011. Revenge is served incredibly cold in a deli-cious whodunit.

Now Nashville Katz has just landed her first catering gig: Lolo Baker (a social butterfly) hosts a murder mystery party, where somebody gets “murdered” and the other guests must figure out who the killer is. It is all in good fun, up until the “victim” comes crashing through the ceiling and lands (fatally) in Gwen’s formerly tasty gravy, having literally been smoked to perfection.

This amateur sleuth knows Hoppy Hopewell, the newly deceased, was in quite the pickle. He’d squandered the vast family fortune as he simultaneously had affairs with Nashville’s wealthiest of women, many of whom were attending this party. However while Gwen continues digger deeper, she finds this case to be much messier than chopped liver, and learns that she has somehow become sandwiched between her boyfriend’s potentially cheating heart and the deliciously handsome eyes of the detective that is working this case.

When you own a deli, life ain’t always a bowl of chicken soup.

“A Killer in the Rye” is the third novel in the “Deadly Deli Mystery” series and was released in 2011. Nashville Katz will soon be the main course of her own Early Bird Special!

Has Nashville Katz bitten off more than she can chew? The spunky owner of Murray’s Pastrami Swami finds the McCoy’s Bakery delivery guy dead just in front of her deli, and all of his employers want to settle somebody’s corned beef hash. With the pregnant wife of the expired driver due any minute and her cop brother turning the heat up, Gwen is in quite the pickle, since she is a prime suspect and will soon face a griddling hot enough to sizzle a Hebrew National Frankfurter.

Clearing her name and catching this killer isn’t going to be easy. Could it be a dirty cop? A newspaper editor with an off-the-record grudge? Possibly a vegan with some serious beef? Between making salami sandwiches and juggling two romances, she hardly has any time to dig for clues. However when she finds this un-kosher Katz family secret, she knows that it is now, or never! Since the ties that bind can also strangle!

“From Herring to Eternity” is the fourth novel in the “Deadly Deli Mystery” series and was released in 2013. Gwen jumps outta the frying pan and into the fire when this customer keels over.

Lippy Montgomery (streetcorner trumpeter) dies after he eats at Murray’s Pastrami Swami, having been poisoned by the herring. What’s even more perplexing, is his battered trumpet case had been stolen from the crime scene. Could somebody close to Gwen be responsible? Is it the professional treasure hunter that sat beside him at the counter? Maybe the record producer that has a secret he does not want revealed? The sister that earns a living as a high priced escort?

And on top of that, this coven of Wiccans goes to war with this ambulance chasing attorney and this arrogant college professor over some Civil War burial ground, which just so happens to lie under Gwen’s house?

With both her home and her deli on the line, she must also catch this killer that wants to see her sleeping with the fishes.

“To Kill a Matzo Ball” is the fifth novel in the “Deadly Deli Mystery” series and was released in 2014. Hitting below the Broscht Belt.

For Gwen, running Murray’s, makes her feel like a whitefish out of water. And adding to this craziness is Ken Chan (martial arts teacher) has come to sample her kosher delicacies for this black belt ceremony he wants to have catered.

However right when Chan is going to try a matzo ball, bullets shatter the window of the deli and Ken’s killed while pushing Gwen to safety. Was he the victim of a hit by a crime gang from New York’s Chinatown? Was a local hate group targeting him, or possibly even Gwen? With the FBI and Nashville Police both baffled, Gwen gets help from a new age eccentric entrepreneur.

However more than bad vibes are coming at her while a killer returns, and this time around it is the deli owner that just might be the outgoing order.

“Fry Me a Liver” is the sixth novel in the “Deadly Deli Mystery” series and was released in 2015. Gwen has definitely had some very un-Kosher experiences since she moved from New York: dead street musicians, dead customers, and dead deliverymen. Sometimes the country music capital of the world feels more like a graveyard.

However Gwen’s knocked flat on her butt finally once a van comes plunging right through her roof, causing this explosion and barricading her in with her employees and Tootsie Pearl (a Nashville mayoral candidate).

Could this have been an attack on the candidate, or a war against Gwen? With her deli in shambles, she’s hot to grill the putz responsible for turning deli into a culinary nightmare.