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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In her sixth mystery featuring Kansas City chef Heaven Lee, Temple (The Cornbread Killer, etc.) serves up fare more short-order than gourmet. Heaven agrees to help an old friend, the wife of coffee importer Truely Whitten, in New Orleans with a benefit for the Sisters of the Holy Trinity, but receipt of an anonymous letter accusing her staff of infecting the food almost puts this plan on the back burner. Heaven travels to New Orleans to confer with other committee members before what promises to be a major fund-raiser. Then news anchor Amelia Hart arrives uninvited to sour the proceedings, while the theft of an 18th-century crucifix and the appearance of graffiti on the sisters' convent walls provoke further consternation. This is too much of a coincidence for Heaven, who voices her suspicions before leaving this pot of trouble to simmer and heading home to hate mail and pastry shells. The week of the benefit, she's back in the French Quarter, plating salads and overseeing the dessert course. When an explosion rocks the neighborhood and the dust clears, Truely is discovered dead in a tub of dishwater. Heaven must find the culprit before she becomes the chef's special. A complex story line that fails to hold together, undeveloped characters, events that contribute nothing to the story the ingredients of this mystery never set properly. Even the descriptions of restaurant specials fail to appetize. (Aug. 20)Forecast: Food mystery fans will want to send this one back to the kitchen and there will be no run on this plat du jour.
From Booklist
Redhead Heaven Lee runs a restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri; she was a lawyer once and has a number of ex-husbands, along with a boyfriend 20 years her junior. In this adventure, Heaven has gone to New Orleans as one of the cooks for a benefit honoring an ancient order of nuns in the city. An old school friend of Heaven's, also a lawyer, gets back in touch, and suddenly there's a theft at the convent; there's poison in the herbs; and the lawyer's husband, a coffee importer, ends up dead. The attraction in this overstuffed story is the Big Easy: landmarks, well-known chefs and restaurants, and local color abound. A conniving (and retired) madam, some double-dealing friends and colleagues, and a sleuth who thinks nothing of rifling through a friend's desk or laptop keep it lively. You'll be longing for beignets by mid-murder. GraceAnne DeCandido
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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In her sixth mystery featuring Kansas City chef Heaven Lee, Temple (The Cornbread Killer, etc.) serves up fare more short-order than gourmet. Heaven agrees to help an old friend, the wife of coffee importer Truely Whitten, in New Orleans with a benefit for the Sisters of the Holy Trinity, but receipt of an anonymous letter accusing her staff of infecting the food almost puts this plan on the back burner. Heaven travels to New Orleans to confer with other committee members before what promises to be a major fund-raiser. Then news anchor Amelia Hart arrives uninvited to sour the proceedings, while the theft of an 18th-century crucifix and the appearance of graffiti on the sisters' convent walls provoke further consternation. This is too much of a coincidence for Heaven, who voices her suspicions before leaving this pot of trouble to simmer and heading home to hate mail and pastry shells. The week of the benefit, she's back in the French Quarter, plating salads and overseeing the dessert course. When an explosion rocks the neighborhood and the dust clears, Truely is discovered dead in a tub of dishwater. Heaven must find the culprit before she becomes the chef's special. A complex story line that fails to hold together, undeveloped characters, events that contribute nothing to the story the ingredients of this mystery never set properly. Even the descriptions of restaurant specials fail to appetize. (Aug. 20)Forecast: Food mystery fans will want to send this one back to the kitchen and there will be no run on this plat du jour.
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--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.From Booklist
Redhead Heaven Lee runs a restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri; she was a lawyer once and has a number of ex-husbands, along with a boyfriend 20 years her junior. In this adventure, Heaven has gone to New Orleans as one of the cooks for a benefit honoring an ancient order of nuns in the city. An old school friend of Heaven's, also a lawyer, gets back in touch, and suddenly there's a theft at the convent; there's poison in the herbs; and the lawyer's husband, a coffee importer, ends up dead. The attraction in this overstuffed story is the Big Easy: landmarks, well-known chefs and restaurants, and local color abound. A conniving (and retired) madam, some double-dealing friends and colleagues, and a sleuth who thinks nothing of rifling through a friend's desk or laptop keep it lively. You'll be longing for beignets by mid-murder. GraceAnne DeCandido
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
See all Editorial Reviews
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