Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of America

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This delicious new souffle from the authors of the international best-seller Someone Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe takes readers behind the scenes at the White House kitchen, into the test kitchen at a leading U.S. food magazine, under the tables at the hottest restaurants in New York, and up to the finish line for the murderous competition at the International Culi...more This delicious new souffle from the authors of the international best-seller Someone Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe takes readers behind the scenes at the White House kitchen, into the test kitchen at a leading U.S. food magazine, under the tables at the hottest restaurants in New York, and up to the finish line for the murderous competition at the International Culinary Olympics. After the gruesome deaths of the great chefs of Europe, the glamorous Natasha O'Brien returns home to become editor of a new magazine, American Cuisine. Turning her back on painful memories as well as heavy sauces, she's committed to helping America rediscover its palate by focusing on natural cooking, from Cal-Ital to nouvelle Tex-Mex. There's one problem, though: someone is killing the great chefs of America. As the police round up the usual suspects, Natasha finds herself cheek to cheek with her ex-husband, Maximilian (Mr. Fast Food) Ogden - a.k.a. Millie - as they try to put aside their culinary differences to establish their innocence and find the killer. Despite Natasha's determination not to let history repeat itself - and not to fall in love with Millie again - American chefs are found dead in a series of brutal tableaux that could only have been conceived by that psychopathic gourmand, the legendary Achille van Golk. But Achille is dead - n'est-ce pas? The past begins to intrude upon the present. Faster than bistro food captured New York, Natasha turns up on someone's menu as the next victim. But who is the culprit? Is it the exotic Mrs. Nakamura, head of Fuji Food, who has an insatiable appetite for Millie? The neurotic food critic Roy Drake, who has made an art of killing chefs - though heretofore only with his poison pen? The prim Miss Beauchamp, a secretary scorned, who was secretly in love with Achille? Or is it that most dangerous monster of all - the fat person inside every thin person who is desperate to escape? All is revealed as the book reaches its hilarious(less)

Hardcover, 216 pages

Published April 1st 1993 by Little Brown and Company (first published 1993)

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Jul 25, 2011 Stephen rated it 4 of 5 stars

This sequel to Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe took a long time to find its way into print but the wait was worth it ... if you like the slick, smarty-pants style of Nan and Ivan Lyons ... which I do.

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Unlike fine wine, this mystery written in 1993 did not age well.

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