A Slice of Murder
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- 4,99 €
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- 4,99 €
Publisher Description
A SLICE OF MURDER by Chris Cavender (Pizza Lover's Mystery Book 1)
From the Pizza Lover's Mysteries, first published by Kensington.
Praise for A SLICE OF MURDER
"Pizza lovers will relish Cavender's delightful first in a new cozy series."
Publisher's Weekly
"Cavender introduces a promising cast of characters."
Booklist
"A delightful mystery—as filling as a big slice of warm pizza."
Armchair Detective
"Saucy debut…with all the ingredients needed for an enjoyable treat"
Lesa's Book Critiques
"Cavender is an ace at writing cozies."
Library Journal
When pizzeria owner Eleanor Swift steps in for her delivery driver at the last second, she doesn't expect to find the dead body of Richard Olsen on the kitchen floor with a knife plunged into his chest. To make matters worse, the murder victim recently made a drunken pass at Eleanor in public a few days before the crime, and when her high school sweetheart and the current chief of police Kevin Hurley starts to investigate, Eleanor begins to realize that she must solve the crime herself to clear her name. She reluctantly enlists the help of her sassy sister, Maddy, and the two of them start digging into who might have wanted to see Richard Olsen dead.
Homemade pizza dough and sauce recipes included!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Pizza lovers will relish the pseudonymous Cavender's delightful first in a new cozy series, which introduces Eleanor Swift, owner of A Slice of Life, a pizzeria in Timber Ridge, N.C. When late one winter night Eleanor delivers a pizza ("one of my specials decked out with pepperoni, sausage, ham, bacon, hamburger, and little bits of sliced sirloin"), she finds her customer, Richard Olsen, lying dead on the floor with a kitchen knife in his chest. Kevin Hurley, the surly local police chief who pursued her back in high school, responds to her 911 call. Suspecting Eleanor is guilty, Kevin does his best to make her life difficult. Olsen's dotty sister thinks so, too, but once she's convinced of Eleanor's innocence, she asks Eleanor's help in solving the murder. Eleanor's occasionally married sister, Maddy, assists in the sleuthing. A lively pace and a thrilling climax more than compensate for some distracting chatter and not always relevant sibling spats.
