Delicious and Suspicious
Welcome to Aunt Pat's barbecue restaurant, which serves up Memphis fun with a side order of murder. Recipes included. Named in honor of Lulu Taylor's great aunt, Aunt Pat's family-run Memphis restaurant is known for its ribs and spicy cornbread. But now the Taylor family will be known for...
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Welcome to Aunt Pat's barbecue restaurant, which serves up Memphis fun with a side order of murder. Recipes included. Named in honor of Lulu Taylor's great aunt, Aunt Pat's family-run Memphis restaurant is known for its ribs and spicy cornbread. But now the Taylor family will be known for murder... Rebecca Adrian came to Memphis to suss out the best local BBQ for a prominent Cooking Channel Show. Trouble is, a mystery ingredient has killed her-and now all fingers are pointing to Aunt Pat's restaurant. Horrified that her family is being accused of murder, Lulu fires up her investigative skills to solve the crime before someone else gets skewered.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780425235539 (042523553X)
Publish date: 2010-07-06
Publisher: Berkley
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Series: A Memphis BBQ Mystery (#1)
Not the best cozy mystery I've read. Hopefully the 2nd book is better.
I so wanted to like this book and didn't.
Did not finish. Boooooorrrrring. Lacked any punch that most fun food cozy mysteries have. Not my thing.
It wasn't what I was expecting, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. The plot was good, the sense of place was excellent - I could really picture Aunt Pat's - and the characters likeable. The ending was a small departure from your normal cozies, but was handled really well. While this isn't my 'normal...
I had a hard time getting into the book and set it aside quite a bit. About 1/3 - 1/2 way in I really felt like I was connecting to the main character, Lulu, and then the book went quickly after that. A wide and varied cast of characters kept me guessing as to the identity of the killer, but it al...
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