No Reservations Required - A Culinary Mystery

Zusatztext “Hart is a master of juggling all of her complicated plots and subplots with twists that keep her reader in a constant state of suspense.” –Lambda Book Report Informationen zum Autor ELLEN HART’s other novels include This Little Piggy Went to Murder, For Every Evil, The Oldest Sin, Murder in the Air, Slice and Dice, Dial M for Meat Loaf, and Death on a Silver Platter; and the Jane Lawless mysteries, which were launched with Hallowed Murder. A two-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Best Mystery/Detective Fiction and a four-time winner of the Lambda Book Award, Ms. Hart is like her fictional heroine Sophie Greenway in two respects: both have had food-related careers (the author was a chef for twelve years) and both have college degrees in fundamentalist Christian theology. She lives in Minneapolis. Klappentext A KILLER WAS FULLY COMMITTED Twin Cities businessman Ken Loy is the first to die; shot between the eyes during a sunset bike ride. Half an hour later! Bob Fabian! the rich and handsome owner of the Minneapolis Times Register! meets a similar fate. It was a year ago when Loy broadsided the VW Beetle driven by Fabian's wife! Valerie! killing her instantly. Coincidence? Sleuthing food critic Sophie Greenway doesn't buy it. Indeed! the elegant Rookery Club! where the upper crust gathers to drink! dine! and gossip! is already simmering with rumors-about the murders! about a Times Register reporter's shameless fabrication of news stories! about rifts in two high-profile relationships. So when Sophie turns up the heat! the lethal bouillabaisse of twisted love! sadistic rage! and insatiable greed boils over. It seems that poisonous concoction murder du jour is back on the menu. . . . Leseprobe 1   Mid-October   When Ken Loy left his house for the last time, it was just beginning to turn dark. His bicycle, a LeMond with a superlight Reynolds 853 mainframe, was leaning against a stack of firewood in the garage. Ken loved riding at night, loved drawing the fresh, cool air into his lungs after being cooped up inside an office all day. He worked such long hours at Miller & Gustafson that his evenings were the only time he had for exercise and relaxation.   Ken Loy was the divorced father of two teenage daughters. He saw his kids mostly on weekends when he’d take them to a movie or a sporting event— whatever was around that interested them. During the past summer, he’d finally met a woman he liked a lot, but he had so little free time that the relationship had pretty much died on the vine.   That had been the problem in his marriage, too. Ken never seemed to have enough hours in the day for everything that needed to be done. But how was a guy supposed to get ahead if he didn’t keep his nose to the grindstone? Ken had never believed his wife when she insisted that his job came first, last, and in between. But now he was beginning to wonder if she wasn’t right. If—God forbid—his life should end tonight, he wouldn’t have much to show for it other than a bank account and dozens of empty prescription bottles of Prilosec.   After checking his water bottle, Ken hopped on. He tightened the strap on his helmet—making sure his earphones were perfectly positioned in his ears— then turned on his CD player, adjusted the sound, and finally pumped off down Raymond Avenue.   It took only a few minutes to reach his destination— Shepard Road. Sailing along the bike path on the double highway, with railroad tracks on one side of him and the Mississippi River on the other, Ken felt happy for the first time all day. The air was a tonic, and Rod Stewart, his favorite singer, blasted all the cobwebs out of his brain.   Although the year hadn’t exactly been a banner one for Ken Loy, he was doing his best to put the horror of last fall behind him. Exercise was a big part of that, and tonight it felt e...

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Hart
• Publisher: Fawcett Book Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2005
• EAN: 9780449007327
• ISBN: 978-0-449-00732-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 174 mm x 22 mm