Six Feet Deep Dish Reading Kit

Six Feet Deep Dish

Six Feet Deep Dish is the first book in the Deep Dish Mystery Series by award-winning author Mindy Quigley. The amateur sleuth is Delilah O’Leary, a fiery chef who is opening a gourmet deep-dish pizzeria in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin, a lakeside resort town known for its fancy estates and shady past as a mob hideout. When she stumbles over a body on opening night and the great-grandson of Al Capone starts investigating, Delilah knows she needs to solve the mystery quickly or risk losing her dream restaurant and disappointing the employees who need their jobs at the pizzeria as much as she does.

See reader reviews and a spoiler-free reading guide to Six Feet Deep Dish.

Six Feet Deep Dish Reader Questions

Use these reader questions for a book club discussion, or buddy read chat. If you aren’t in a book club, you can still use these questions to reflect on the book after you’ve read it.

• What three words would you use to describe Six Feet Deep Dish?

• What did you think of the setting of Geneva Bay, Wisconsin?

• Have you ever visited Wisconsin? Would you like to?

• Have you ever had a deep dish pizza or any of the other foods mentioned in the book?

• Will you try any of the recipes at the end of Six Feet Deep Dish?

• If you could open your own gourmet restaurant, what kind of food would it sell?

• Delilah has a big cat and a big personality. What did you think of her character?

• What did you think of Detective Calvin Capone? What do you think will happen next between him and Delilah?

• What did you think of the dynamics between Delilah and the employees of Delilah & Son?

• Did you have a favorite character in Six Feet Deep Dish?

• Did you have a favorite scene in Six Feet Deep Dish? What did you like about this scene?

• Were you able to solve the murder mystery in Six Feet Deep Dish?

• Did the ending surprise you? What did you think about it?

• Would you like to see Six Feet Deep Dish turned into a movie? Who would you cast to play Delilah, Capone, Aunt Biz, and Sonya?

• Have you listened to the Six Feet Deep Dish audiobook? Did you enjoy the narration?

• Do you have any predictions for future books in the Deep Dish Mystery Series?

• Do you plan on reading Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust, the next book in the series?

Fun Activities for a Six Feet Deep Dish Book Club Meeting

• Get together to discuss Six Feet Deep Dish. Talk about the mystery and share your favorite characters, scenes, and food moments. Use the reader questions shown above to spark conversation.

• Have a pizza party. Use one of the recipes in the back of the Six Feet Deep Dish book to make the pizza.

• Visit a local pizza place and soak up the fun restaurant ambiance while you chat about the book.

• Ask Mindy Quigley to join your book club meeting. Mindy loves coming to book clubs, and if she can’t be there in person, she may be able to join you via Zoom. Learn more on Mindy’s website, MindyQuigley.com.

Deep Dish Mystery Dinner Menu

Food is a big part of the story in Six Feet Deep Dish. Making some of the food featured in the story is a great way to celebrate the book and keep the fun going after you’re done reading. Here is a complete menu for a Deep Dish Mystery Dinner.

• Italian Beef Crostini (Appetizer, recipe card below)

• Aunt Biz’s Orange Supremes with Fennel and Arugula (Starter Salad, recipe included in Six Feet Deep Dish)

• Deep Dish Pizza (Main Dish; recipe included in Six Feet Deep Dish)

• Daniel’s Emergencia Medica Cocktail (Digestif, recipe included in Six Feet Deep Dish)

Deep Dish Mystery Recipe Card Download

Click on the links or images to see, save, or print this two-sided Deep Dish Mystery recipe card created by Sarah Ickes.