Cook the Books
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- 6,99 €
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- 6,99 €
Publisher Description
It’s a recipe for disaster when Chloe Carter takes a job working for a cookbook writer—and plunges into a sizzling stew of malice and murder
If you can’t take the heat . . .
Gourmet girl Chloe Carter is keeping busy with grad school and spoiling her best friend’s three-month-old son. Now, courtesy of Craigslist, she has a new job as assistant to cookbook author Kyle Boucher—a job that stirs up painful memories of her ex-boyfriend Josh, who chose the shimmering beaches of Hawaii over a life with her on the mean streets of Boston. The gig heats up when Boucher asks her to compile a book of recipes from Boston’s top chefs. Chloe leaps from the frying pan into the fire when she arrives for a meeting with Digger, one of Josh’s friends and a rival chef, and discovers a dead body instead.
Digger died of smoke inhalation from a blaze that started in his kitchen. Unable to believe that an executive chef would allow a grease fire to get so out of control, Chloe starts an unofficial search for the murderer. As if she didn’t have enough on her plate already, now Josh is back in town. Chloe must decide where her future truly lies, but as a killer prepares to strike again, the amateur detective will find herself racing against time to protect those nearest and dearest to her.
This ebook features mouth-watering recipes sure to satisfy more than just your appetite for crime.
Cook the Books is the 5th book in the Gourmet Girl Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Conant-Park and Conant s cookie-cutter fifth Gourmet Girl mystery with recipes (after 2009 s Fed Up) finds foodie Chloe Carter heartbroken. Her boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, who s left Boston for a job as a private chef in Hawaii, has invited her to join him there, but Chloe can t desert friend Adrianna, who recently had a baby, or drop out of her master s program in social work. In need of money, Chloe becomes the assistant to a cookbook writer, Kyle Boucher, who wants her to visit Boston area restaurants and collect recipes from their chefs. Kyle s unpleasant father, a celebrity chef, will lend his name to the book. When Chloe arrives for a meeting with Digger, an up-and-coming chef who happens to be a friend of Josh s, she discovers Digger has died in a fire in his Somerville apartment. Cats provide comfort. Some readers may wish Chloe fretted less about her love life and did more sleuthing.
