'Recipes for Love and Murder is chock full of good food and interesting characters.' Kerry Greenwood 'A delightful debut, tender and funny. The mystery takes on the worldwide problem of abused women while revealing both the beauties and problems of South Africa. And the recipes will make you want to drop everything and start cooking.' STARRED Review, Kirkus 'This looks likes cosy crime - and it is both funny and sweet - but it has a hard edge and doesn't skirt the difficult subjects of South Africa's history and the region's huge problem with domestic violence. It is a culinary and linguistic treat too, packed with recipes and smatterings of Afrikaans.' Bookseller 'A clever, funny and warm-hearted debut crime novel from South Africa, that will make you laugh and cry.' Good Reading 'Andrew offers up engaging characters and a storyline with enough surprises to keep it interesting...Recipes for Love and Murder is easily digestible murder-mystery fare, with a love story or two thrown in for extra seasoning.' Otago Daily Times 'A delightful debut, tender and funny.' Kirkuk Reviews, Best Fiction Books of 2015 'A blue-ribbon winner.' Wall Street Journal, Best Books of 2015 'Funny, serious and touching.' New Zealand Listener 'A triumph.' -- Alexander McCall Smith 'Sally Andrew gives the reader a murder mystery with an original plot, a twist or two and quite a few red herrings...She laces it with plenty of humour, fills it with wonderful food, and wraps the whole thing in some gorgeous descriptive prose...[the] second Tannie Maria mystery is even better than the first.' BookMooch

"Sally Andrew lives in a mud-brick house on a nature reserve near Ladismith in the Klein Karoo (South Africa). She has published a number of non-fiction books and educational articles. The feel-good books Recipes for Love and Murder and Tannie Maria and the Satanic Mechanic are her first novels."