Three Blonde Mice
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- 6,99 €
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- 6,99 €
Publisher Description
The New York Times-bestselling author of Princess Charming returns with “a hilarious culinary comedy dripping with both romance and suspense” (Ciji Ware, New York Times bestselling author of That Winter in Venice).
Elaine Zimmerman and her best friends, Jackie and Pat, are venturing to a farm in Litchfield, Connecticut. It’s been over a year since their last trip together, a Caribbean cruise aboard the Princess Charming—and after dealing with a murderous ex and his hit man, they’re yearning for a no-drama vacation. During their Cultivate Our Bounty Week, they and eight other guests will learn how to cook farm-to-table meals with artisan-in-residence Chef Jason Hill.
But amid milking a cow, making cheese, and managing the surprise appearance of an ex-boyfriend, Elaine discovers that one of their classmates is a little too keen on practicing knife technique. Is the killer one of the freakishly fit Manhattan couple who take their devotion to organic, hormone-free, non-GMO food to the point of obsession? The grandmother from Wisconsin who’s a groupie of the celebrity chef and follows him to every event? The mother and son from Palm Beach who bicker over whether he should give up his law practice to open his own restaurant? Three Blonde Mice serves up a crackling romance, a twisty whodunit involving a screwball cast of suspects, and a satire of food fads and the chefs who perpetuate them.
“A real treat.”—Eileen Goudge, New York Times-bestselling author of The Diary
“A hilarious send-up of foodies and the farm-to-table movement…a delicious read―and there are no calories.”―Elaine Viets, author of the Dead-End Job Mysteries
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Somebody wants to kill famed farm-to-table chef Jason Hill, but the titular blonds 40-something Elaine Zimmerman and her two best friends, Pat and Jackie, all on a "haycation" at a Cultivate Our Bounty week in Connecticut are on the case in this tepid sequel to Princess Charming. Heller offers plenty of red herrings and a decent amount of laughs at present-day foodie culture, but there's a dull edge to the overly broad humor as the three women attempt to ferret out which of their fellow agritourists wants to add the arrogant chef's murder to the menu. Might it be the Jason Hill groupie, tired of being ignored by the object of her adoration? Perhaps it is the handsome Palm Beach lawyer wooing Elaine after her breakup with her ex, who shows up to win her back, or one of the sustainable farming obsessed husband-and-wife team. The ever-wry Elaine is a finely honed narrator, but for much of the story, malapropism-prone Pat and horny, soused Jackie walk around in a fog.
