Publisher Description
Boston foodie and amateur detective Chloe Carter has enough on her plate without someone dying on a reality TV show after dining on her chef boyfriend's lamb le poison
Chloe Carter is ready for her fifteen minutes of vicarious fame. Her boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, is competing with two other chefs to win Chefly Yours, a cable reality series. The show takes place at an upscale market, where a random shopper is selected to be the lucky recipient of a home-cooked gourmet meal; the winning chef is then chosen by the viewers. But Josh's television career might be over before it starts when a shopper's wife, Francie, dies after dining on his signature lamb chops and pesto gnocchi.
It wasn't Josh's cooking that killed Francie. It was a lethal dose of poison. In between planning her best friend's wedding and helping at her parents' landscaping business, Chloe sifts through suspects ranging from Josh's rival contestants to pranksters who may have taken a joke too far. Was Francie the intended victim? Or was she simply in the wrong place at the wrong time? The discovery of her true identity and a secret Josh has been keeping conspire to disrupt the wedding as Chloe faces off against a killer ready to turn the impending nuptials into a fatal feeding frenzy.
This ebook features mouth-watering recipes sure to satisfy more than just your appetite for crime.
Fed Up is the 4th book in the Gourmet Girl Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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In Conant-Park and Conant's cute fourth Gourmet Girl mystery to feature Chloe Carter (after 2008's Turn Up the Heat), Josh Driscoll, Chloe's chef boyfriend, unwittingly serves up some poisoned lamb on a Boston cable reality TV show, Chefly Yours. Both Josh and Chloe fall ill, but it's Francie, a randomly chosen shopper at the gourmet store Natural High, who eats too much of the digitalis-laced dish and doesn't recover. Was Francie the intended victim or just unlucky? Suspects range from Josh's fellow contestants competing for a new eight-part cooking show to some pranksters who may have taken a joke too far. Preparations for the wedding of Chloe's very pregnant best friend distract "social work's answer to Nancy Drew" from her sleuthing, but not for long. Recipes, some by pro chefs, round out this delectable chick lit cozy, which ends on an emotional cliffhanger for Chloe.
