Red Beans and Vice - Hardcover

Temple, Lou Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312280130 ISBN 13: 9780312280130

Verlag: Minotaur Books, 2001

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Chef and restaurateur Heaven Lee has gotten into plenty of scrapes in her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. This time around, she's cooking up trouble in New Orleans while visiting to help the Sisters of the Holy Trinity hold their annual benefit dinner. The convent is having financial problems and only Heaven Lee's culinary creativity can offer hope.

Unfortunately, before she can really get cooking, Heaven's old friend Mary's husband, HeavelkjTruely Whitten, coffee importer and native New Orleanian, is found murdered with Heaven's own knife. To make matters worse, the convent's sacred cross simultaneously turns up missing. When she becomes the prime suspect, Heaven has no choice but to put her pots and pans aside and pursue the villain in order to both clear her own name and get dinner on the table in time for the big benefit.

Heaven's smart, saucy attitude spurs her on in the search for the vicious murderer as well as for the perfect New Orleans dish to serve the Sisters. When all else fails, she finds the answers to both puzzles right under her own nose, saving the day and serving up a new signature Heaven Lee dish, Nola Pie. The delectable dessert is guaranteed to tantalize readers' taste buds and the satisfying mystery will leave them begging for seconds.

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Lou Jane Temple is an adventurer. She has taken on the food world, cooking and catering, being a restaurateur, writing about food and wine, and authoring six culinary mysteries featuring Heaven Lee. She has also bee a guest chef at the Culinary Institute of America and at the famed James Beard Foundation. Lou Jane lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

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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
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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.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Minotaur Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312280130
• ISBN 13: 9780312280130
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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