A Catered Valentine's Day

✍ Scribed by Crawford, Isis

• Book ID: 108064636
• Publisher: Kensington
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 132 KB
• Series: Mystery with Recipes 4
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0758242913

✦ Synopsis

Bernie and Libby, sisters and owners of A Taste of Heaven Catering, are partnering up with the Just Chocolate store for a Valentine's Day mega-event. When a client's mother dies, Bernie and Libby put their plans on hold to attend the funeral, only to become involved in a grisly mystery. A corpse has been found...in someone else's grave. The body belongs to Ted Gorman--the same Ted Gorman who co-owned Just Chocolate and supposedly died in a fiery car crash weeks earlier. Now Bernie and Libby, working with Ted's widow, must sort through a mixed box of dark financial scandal, sticky family ties, and bittersweet passion to unwrap a killer with a ruthless center...

From Publishers Weekly

Crawford's well-paced fourth culinary cozy (after 2005's A Catered Christmas), finds sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons, who run a catering business in Longely, N.Y., called A Little Taste of Heaven, flooded with a rush of orders for Valentine's Day on top of the fund-raiser they're organizing with recently widowed chocolate-store owner Marnie Gorman. But their duties take them beyond the kitchen when Marnie's dead hubby, Ted, turns up in someone else's graveand in far better condition than after his death in a fiery car accident. Funeral home mogul Clayton Hanson, father and employer of Libby's undertaker boyfriend Marvin, calls on Bernie and Libby to solve the grave-swapping mystery, and the sisters bring in their wheelchair-bound ex-policeman dad, Sean, as reinforcement. But even as a two-time corpse, Ted is not at rest. On the romantic front, as Bernie's love with her sweetheart, Rob, fades, longtime friend and bartender Brandon appears more than willing to take his place. (Jan.)
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Review

"The sisters' playful rivalry, clever dialogue, and an eccentric supporting cast make for plenty of cozy fun."