Recipes for Love and Murder

Tannie Maria sees food as "medicine for the body and heart". She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it's death that shakes up Tannie Maria's life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered.

Mystery

Crime

Drama

Recipes for Love and Murder

Mystery

Crime

Drama

Created By: Tannie MariaSally AndrewKaren Jeynes
First Aired on: Mar 20, 2022
Popularity: 13.233: 12 votes
Networks: (ZA)
Production: Both Worlds PicturesAcorn Media Enterprises (GB)Pirate Productions
Status: Returning Series: In Production

Seasons & episodes

Total 2 seasons, 18 episodes

Season 1

When a woman seeking advice about an abusive husband is found dead, recipe advice columnist Tannie Maria, and her colleague, rookie journalist Jessie, spring into action, determined to solve this small town Karoo murder and catch the killer. Big city cop Khaya and his team of local police officers always find themselves just slightly behind the detecting duo, as the investigation takes us through an array of unlikely suspects.

Aired 3 years ago

10 Episodes

Episode 1Bereft Woman45 min
Tannie Maria Purvis has just lost her job as recipe-writer for the local paper so turns her talents to the advice column instead. One of the first letters leads her to an abused woman whose life may be in danger.
Episode 2Sex Cake45 min
Tannie Maria has grave doubts about the police's investigation, but is distracted by a lovelorn farmer who needs a little sweetness in his life. Jessie's drive for investigative journalism lands her and Maria in the middle of a shootout.
Episode 3Do You Lick Everything?46 min
Tannie and Jessie have some awkward questions to answer at the police station after another murder. Jessie's mother has a mystery at work that needs solving.
Episode 4Operation Vetkoek44 min
The community says goodbye to Lawrence and Martine's cousin arrives to take charge of her funeral. Maria and Jessie attempt to interview a befuddled Dirk and Maria uses mince to solve a teenage identity crisis.
Episode 5A Shoe Murder48 min
Tannie Maria and Jessie take their shoes off before they sneak into a house. Later She comes home and finds her missing shoes sitting on her front porch cut in half as a warning. She reports her murdered shoes to detective Khaya.