A Cookbook Conspiracy: A Bibliophile Mystery

✍ Scribed by Carlisle, Kate

• Book ID: 108918217
• Publisher: NAL
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 348 KB
• Series: Bibliophile 7
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101591253

✦ Synopsis

**It�s a recipe for disaster when bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright is asked to restore an antique cookbook�.**

Brooklyn has always been a little obsessed with food, but it was her sister Savannah who became a chef, graduating from the prestigious Cordon Bleu school in Paris. She and her classmates all went on to successful careers, but none of them achieved culinary superstardom like Savannah�s ex-boyfriend Baxter Cromwell.

When Baxter invites the old gang to participate in his new restaurant�s gala opening in San Francisco, Savannah looks forward to seeing her friends, and even asks Brooklyn to restore a tattered cookbook�an old gift from Baxter�as a present for him. But Brooklyn immediately recognizes that the book, which has strange notes and symbols scrawled in the margins, is at least two hundred years old. She thinks that it probably belongs in a museum, but Savannah insists on returning it to Baxter.

Shortly after receiving the gift, Baxter is found dead, with Savannah kneeling over him, bloody knife in hand, and the rare cookbook has disappeared. Brooklyn knows her sister didn�t kill him, and she suspects the missing cookbook might lead to the real villain. Now Brooklyn will have to turn up the heat on the investigation before Chef Savannah finds herself slinging hash in a prison cafeteria.

From Booklist

Brooklyn Wainwright can�t cook, but she�s an expert bookbinder. Her sister, Savannah, though, is a top chef, with an array of friends, all classmates from Le Cordon Bleu. One of those friends had given Savannah a manuscript of an eighteenth-century �receipt� book, and now she wants to return it, rebound, as a gift upon the opening of his newest restaurant in San Francisco. Within hours of giving him the cookbook, Savannah finds him dead, stabbed in the restaurant�s kitchen, and the cookbook is nowhere to be found. Brooklyn is sure the cookbook is the key to clearing her sister and studies the photocopies she made before undertaking the rebinding and restoration. She shows her security-expert boyfriend, who in turn calls in his MI6 brother, a code expert. While the sleuths are trying to crack the code in the cookbook, the gathered chefs, who cannot leave San Francisco, cook meals for each other, providing Brooklyn ample opportunity to probe their friendships�and enmities. The descriptions of the meals are luscious, and the history of the book intriguing, as befits the seventh in the series. Includes recipes. --Karen Muller

Review

**Praise for the *****New York Times***** Bestselling Bibliophile Mystery Series**

�A delicious, twisty tale, it features food, friends, fiends.�Don�t miss it!��Julie Hyzy, *New York Times* Bestselling Author of the White House Chef Mysteries and the Manor House Mysteries

�Suspenseful, intelligent mysteries with a sense of humor.�Kate Carlisle never fails to make me laugh, even as she has me turning the pages to see what�s going to happen next.��Miranda James, *New York Times* Bestselling Author of the Cat in the Stacks Mysteries

�A terrific read�great fun all around.��*Library Journal* (Starred Review)

�Fun and funny�delightful.��Lorna Barrett,* New York** Times *Bestselling Author of the Booktown Mystery Series

�A fun, fast-paced mystery that is laugh-out-loud funny.� Even better, it keeps you guessing to the very end.� �Susan Mallery, *New York Times* Bestselling Author of *Halfway There*

�Carlisle�s story is captivating, and she peoples it with a cast of eccentrics.� Books seldom kill, of course, but this one could murder an early bedtime.��*Richmond** Times-Dispatch*

�Another superb entry� Quirky characters and an intriguing cookbook with a fabulous history add to the fun.� Highly entertaining.� �Carolyn Hart, Author of the Death on Demand Mysteries