NICK GREENBERG • BOOKS & FICTION
Stories Seasoned with Sound, Flavor & Wit
Meet The Caterer, the new second installment in the By Cook or By Crook series.
Nick Greenberg blends culinary intrigue, eccentric characters, crime, music and humor into fiction that rarely goes where you expect. Start with Anton Cherny’s increasingly dangerous adventures—or explore Nick’s other novels and short fiction.
NEW RELEASE • BOOK TWO
BY COOK OR BY CROOK
A culinary mystery series
FOOD • CRIME • HUMOR
Stories with an appetite for trouble
NICK GREENBERG
Author • bassist • composer
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The Caterer
By Cook or By Crook • Book Two
Anton Cherny thought he had left art theft behind. His girlfriend’s father has other plans.
Russian mob boss Peter Danielovitch has wiped Anton’s old debts clean, but the price is steep: steal priceless masterpieces for the mobster’s private gallery. Anton’s elite catering business gives him the perfect cover, turning high-society events into high-stakes heists.
With a ruthless rival closing in and the FBI tightening its net, Anton may have only one way out: one final robbery.
Readers’ Favorite — 5-Star Review
START THE SERIES
The Culinary Caper
By Cook or By Crook • Book One
A food truck chef, crushing debt, stolen art—and one very dangerous girlfriend’s father.
Pierogi-slinging chef Anton Cherny is desperate for a way out of debt when an old art-school friend offers a daring solution: art thievery. Catering parties for professional athletes gives Anton and Ricky access to priceless stolen paintings they can swap for forgeries and return for reward money.
The plan gets considerably less simple when Anton learns his new girlfriend is the daughter of a ruthless Russian mob boss.
ANOTHER NOVEL
Buried Treasure
Music, mystery, rare truffles and the surprisingly dangerous world beneath the forest floor.
When Danny Pasko’s golden retriever unearths a colossal truffle, the struggling Cincinnati musician suddenly finds himself with a valuable new source of income—and inspiration.
But Danny soon discovers that centuries-old truffle fraternities take their fungal territory seriously. As his Ohio harvest attracts acclaim, dangerous enforcers arrive with a simple message: stop the truffle business or face the consequences.
Will Danny fight for his epicurean muse and the rewards it brings, or return to the life he knew?
SHORT FICTION
More from Nick Greenberg
Two shorter works with the same appetite for food, unusual characters and unexpected turns.
Recipe for Success
Teenager Herb Lamb faces his first day at a new school with one extraordinary complication: his entire vocabulary seems to come from Auguste Escoffier’s classic cookbook.
Eat — A Short Story
Journalist Tor Jensen searches for a renegade chef who abandoned a Michelin-starred New York restaurant for a remote corner of Washington—and discovers he may need a life reboot of his own.
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