An Appetite for Murder: A Key West Food Critic Mystery - Softcover

Burdette, Lucy

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ISBN 10: 0451235517 ISBN 13: 9780451235510

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2012

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Hayley Snow's life always revolved around food. But when she applies to be a food critic for a Key West style magazine, she discovers that her new boss would be Kristen Faulkner, the woman Hayley caught in bed with her boyfriend.

Hayley thinks things are as bad as they can get, until the police pull her in as a suspect in Kristen's murder. Kristen was killed by a poisoned key lime pie. Now Hayley must find out who used meringue to murder before she takes all the blame.

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Clinical psychologist Roberta Isleib, aka Lucy Burdette, is the author of the Key West Food Critic Mysteries. Her books and stories have been short-listed for Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards.

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Praise for

An Appetite for Murder

“I can’t wait for the next entry in this charming series.”

—New York Times bestselling author

Diane Mott Davidson

“For a true taste of paradise, don’t miss An Appetite for Murder. Lucy Burdette’s first Key West Food Critic Mystery combines a lush, tropical setting, a mysterious murder, and plenty of quirky characters. The victim may not be coming back for seconds, but readers certainly will!”

—Julie Hyzy, national bestselling author of the White House Chef mysteries and Manor House mysteries

KEY LIME PIE TO DIE FOR

As the last of the coffee burbled and sputtered into the pot, I hurried out onto the dock to retrieve Connie’s copy of the Key West Citizen. I smoothed the paper on the café table in the kitchen and sat down for breakfast. Evinrude splayed out on the chair next to me, grooming his gray stripes into their morning order. I took a sip of coffee and almost spit it out when I saw Kristen’s head shot looming from the box on the front page reserved for the crime report.

Kristen Faulkner, a longtime native of Key West, who had plans to open a restaurant on Easter Island and recently launched Key Zest magazine, was discovered dead in the apartment of a friend yesterday morning. Police have questioned several persons of interest in the suspected murder.

My heart sank with a desperate clunk—suddenly the murder felt real, and my so-called involvement, very scary. Feeling queasy, I stopped reading and flipped over to the living section pages. My byline blared: “Key West Confidential: Key Lime Pie to Die For” by Hayley Snow. Could the timing of such a headline have been any worse?

AN APPETITE
FOR MURDER

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A Key West Food Critic Mystery

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Lucy Burdette

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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For Ang and Chris,

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I offer my humble thanks to all the writers and readers who read drafts and drafts of this book and helped me polish every word: Christine Falcone, Angelo Pompano, Cindy Warm, Susan Cerulean, Hallie Ephron, Susan Hubbard, Mike Wiecek, Mary Buckham, and John Brady.

I’m grateful for the help of Martha Hubbard, chef at Louie’s Backyard in Key West, Florida, who talked to me about real life in a kitchen, and for Steve Torrence and Bob Bean from the Key West Police Department for information about police procedure, and for Jonathan Shapiro for details about arrests from the defending lawyer’s point of view. Any mistakes, misinterpretations, and exaggerations are entirely mine! And thanks to Lyn McHugh for listening to all my stories and making suggestions on cleaning. And to all my Guppy pals for ideas about tarot and book titles. Hank Phillippi Ryan deserves the credit for Key Zest.

The food writing conference at the Key West Literary Seminar came at just the right time—thanks to the universe and the organizers for that!

Thanks again to Paige Wheeler and the good folks at Folio Literary Agency for championing this book—and me. And to my editor, Sandy Harding, and the team at NAL for their excellent advice and enthusiastic support.

I thank my pals at Jungle Red Writers, Sisters in Crime, and Mystery Writers of America for their inspiration and friendship. And I’m so grateful for the booksellers and readers who make writing a joy. To my new friends in Key West—thanks for sharing paradise! Please know that all people and places in this book are either figments of my imagination or used fictitiously.

As always, nothing would happen without the love and support of my family, especially John.

“Because the goodness of the ingredients—the fine chocolate, the freshest lemons—seemed like a cover over something larger and darker, and the taste of what was underneath was beginning to push up from the bite.”

—Aimee Bender

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“A hot dog or a truffle. Good is good.”

—James Beard

Lots of people think they’d love to eat for a living. Me? I’d kill for...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0451235517
• ISBN 13: 9780451235510
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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