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Joanne Pence is a USA Today best selling and award winning author of two mystery series contemporary and historical romance fantasy and thrillers She is the author of the Angie Amalfi culinary mystery series which is still in print after twenty years and now has 15 books the latest COOKING SPIRITS was an April 2013 release and a novella Cooks Christmas Capers Dec 2013 She has just begun a new series the Rebecca Mayfield mysteries ONE OCLOCK HUSTLE is the first full length novel and THE THIRTEENTH SANTA is a novella which shows how the two main characters met. Close Encounters of the Deadly kindzadza Joannes books have won many awards and honors including RWAs Golden Heart and Rita Award nominations the Independent Book Sellers Golden Quill the Daphne du Mau Joanne Pence is a USA Today best selling and award winning author of two mystery series contemporary and historical romance fantasy and thrillers She is the author of the Angie Amalfi culinary mystery series which is still in print after twenty years and now has 15 books the latest COOKING SPIRITS was an April 2013 release and a novella Cook s Christmas Capers Dec 2013 She has just begun a new series the Rebecca Mayfield mysteries ONE O CLOCK HUSTLE is the first full length novel and THE THIRTEENTH SANTA is a novella which shows how the two main characters met. Close Encounters of the Deadly kindzmarauli red Joanne s books have won many awards and honors including RWA s Golden Heart and Rita Award nominations the Independent Book Seller s Golden Quill the Daphne du Maurier award the Willa Cather Literary Award in Historical Fiction for DANCE WITH A GUNFIGHTER and the Idaho Top Fiction Award for ANCIENT ECHOES Joanne was born and raised in San Francisco and now makes her home in the foothills of Boise She has been president of the Boise chapter of Sisters in Crime a founder and board member of the Popular Fiction Association of Idaho and founding member and current board member of the Idaho Writers Guild A graduate of U. Close Encounters of the Deadly kindziuk C Berkeley with a master s degree in journalism Joanne has written for magazines worked for the federal government and taught school in Japan site_link Gourmet cuisine UFO chasers and government conspiracies collide in this cosmic culinary caper Angie Amalfi is sure she s finally come up with the perfect career owner and head chef of Fantasy Dinners bringing fantasies to life through catered dinner parties But when her only clients turn out to be the eccentric members of a group of devoted UFO chasers and government conspiracy connoisseurs she realizes she s cooking with a whole new set of ingredients As she concocts dishes to satisfy their extraterrestrial appetites Angie stumbles upon a saucer sized mystery At the same time San Francisco Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith finds himself knee deep in several murders as mysterious as Area 51 and as gruesome as stories involving extraterrestrial abductions Angie finds herself drawn ever deeper into a whirlpool of Men in Black Roswell lore and suspicious sightings When she finds a connection between her clients and Paavo s investigations she fears she s rocketed herself her into a close encounter that has nothing to do with the food aliens eat Will Angie and Paavo solve the mystery before it s lights out for our favorite Earthlings Strap in for a supernova adventure The truth is out there This is a fully rewritten and reimagined rendering of an earlier mystery A Cook in Time Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind The Cook and Inspector Mysteries Book 4