The Agatha Award–winning author of
Sifting Through Clues
returns to the Cookbook Nook, where a combative food reporter gets her just deserts . . .
The denizens of Crystal Cove are salivating over the upcoming Food Bowl Week, when local chefs offer some of their best and most imaginative creations in bite-size portions all over town. Bookstore proprietor Jenna Hart is hungry to sample as many of the delicacies as she can, but when she stumbles onto the dead body of a local food reporter and learns that her best friend's husband is the primary suspect, she'll have to summon the appetite for a side dish of sleuthing to prove his innocence.
Jenna knows the ambitious and aggressive reporter, who was strangled at a fitness center with her shredded restaurant reviews scattered around her, left behind a long list of potential suspects. As she begins piecing together the scant clues, she uncovers illicit ties between the victim and a local newspaper owner, a spurned would-be lover, and a host of disgruntled restaurant owners not a bit torn up by the critical reporter's demise. And with a solution so close she can almost taste it, Jenna turns up the heat on the culprit, realizing too late that she's the next course on the murderer's menu . . .
Includes tasty recipes!
Praise for Daryl Wood Gerber and the Cookbook Nook Mysteries:
"There's a feisty new amateur sleuth in town and her name is Jenna Hart. With a bodacious cast of characters, a wrenching murder, and a collection of cookbooks to die for, Daryl Wood Gerber's
Final Sentence
is a page-turning puzzler of a mystery that I could not put down." —Jenn McKinlay,
New York Times
bestselling author of the Cupcake Mysteries and Library Lovers Mysteries
"In
, the author smartly blends crime, recipes, and an array of cookbooks that all should covet in a witty, well-plotted whodunit." —Kate Carlisle,
bestselling author of the Bibliophile Mysteries
"Readers will relish the extensive cookbook suggestions, the cooking primer, and the whole foodie phenomenon. Gerber's perky tone with a multigenerational cast makes this series a good match for Lorna Barrett's Booktown Mystery series . . ." —
Library Journal
"So pull out your cowboy boots and settle in for a delightful read.
Grilling the Subject
is a delicious new mystery that will leave you hungry for more." —Carstairs Considers Blog