"fun "Gourmet Girl" mystery"
This Christmas Chloe Carter believes life is great as she
has a terrific loving boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, who is
also a gourmet chef. When they met he was between jobs so
she was his only "customer" in the kitchen and in bed.
However, Josh has accepted the executive chef position at
Simmer, a restaurant opening on New Year 's Eve in
downtown Boston's posh Newbury Street so is quite busy
with hiring and the menu. However, to showcase their food in advance, Simmer has
provided some of their items at the Food for Thought
fundraiser. Things are defiantly looking good until
someone kills Oliver Kipper of the Full Moon Group using
Josh's state of the art Robocoupe food processor as a
murder weapon. The publicity helps make the new
restaurant a success, but Chloe realizes the notoriety in
the long run is not good so she begins to draw up a list
of suspects starting with Josh's ex girlfriends that could
fill up Fenway Park. This is a fun "Gourmet Girl" mystery as a STEAMED Chloe
seeks a motive and opportunity to narrow down her list;
however, motives and opportunity are abundant so she has a
standing room only horde to inquire about. Readers will
enjoy the heroine's escapades as she risks her life to
uncover the identity of a killer. The mother-daughter
author team provides the audience with a delicious chick
lit cozy filled with lists, recipes and asides as Chloe
takes on Beantown. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted February 27, 2007
SummaryNational bestselling author Elaine Viets says the Gourmet
Girl mysteries have "all the right ingredients!"
Chloe Carter's boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, is prepping for the
opening of Simmer, Boston's hottest new restaurant. But at a
fund-raiser featuring samples of Josh's cuisine, a trendy
club owner is found bludgeoned to death—by Josh's
state-of-the-art, professional-grade food processor, the
ominously-named Robocoupe.
By opening night at Simmer, the list of suspects is almost
longer than the line to get in. And Chloe is struggling to
solve the crime before the final course is served.
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