The Agatha Awardwinning author of Wreath Between the Lines returns to the Cookbook Nook, where culinary mysteries are giving everyone food for thought . . .
Book clubs from all over have descended on Crystal Cove to celebrate the librarys Book Club Bonanza week, and Jenna Hart has packed the Cookbook Nook with juicy reads and tasty cookbooks. But shes most excited about spending an evening with the Mystery Mavens and their moveable feast, when they will go from house to house to share different culinary treats and discuss the whodunit theyre all reading. Its all good food and fun for the savvy armchair detectives, until one of the members of the group is found murdered at the last stop on the tour.
As if that werent enough to spoil her appetite, Jenna discovers that all the evidence points to her friend Pepper as being the guilty party. And with Peppers chief-of-police daughter too close to the case to be impartial, Jenna knows shell have to step in to help clear her friends name before a bitter injustice sends her to jail. Sifting through the clues, Jenna unearths any number of possible culprits, but shell have to cook up a new way to catch the killer before Peppers goose is cooked . . .
Includes tasty sweet and savory recipes!
Praise for Daryl Wood Gerber and the Cookbook Nook Mysteries:
Theres 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 Gerbers 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 Final Sentence, the author smartly blends crime, recipes, and an array of cookbooks that all should covet in a witty, well-plotted whodunit. Kate Carlisle, New York Times bestselling author of the Bibliophile Mysteries
Readers will relish the extensive cookbook suggestions, the cooking primer, and the whole foodie phenomenon. Gerbers perky tone with a multigenerational cast makes this series a good match for Lorna Barretts 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
About the Author:
Agatha Awardwinning and nationally bestselling author Daryl Wood Gerber is the author of the Cookbook Nook Mysteries, the French Bistro Mysteries, the Cheese Shop Mysteries (as Avery Aames), and stand-alone suspense thrillers. Little known facts about Daryl are that shes jumped out of a perfectly good airplane, has hitchhiked around Ireland by herself, and has appeared on an episode of Murder, She Wrote. She loves to read, cook, and golf, and has a frisky Goldendoodle named Sparky who keeps her in line!