State of the Onion
Introducing White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras, who is rising-and sleuthing-to the top. Includes recipes for a complete presidential menu! Never let them see you sweat-that's White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras's motto, which is pretty hard to honor in the most important kitchen in the...
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Introducing White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras, who is rising-and sleuthing-to the top. Includes recipes for a complete presidential menu! Never let them see you sweat-that's White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras's motto, which is pretty hard to honor in the most important kitchen in the world. She's hell-bent on earning her dream job, Executive Chef. There's just one thing: her nemesis is vying for it, too. Well, that and the fact that an elusive assassin wants to see her fry.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780425218693 (0425218694)
ASIN: 425218694
Publish date: January 2nd 2008
Publisher: Berkley
Pages no: 325
Edition language: English
Category:
Food And Drink,
Food,
Romance,
Adult,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Cooking,
Cozy Mystery,
Murder Mystery,
Culinary
Series: A White House Chef Mystery (#1)
State of the Onion is unlike any cozy I have read before and I enjoyed it very much. The plot is of a political nature and more involved than many cozy mysteries. My only complaint here, and it is a small one, is that there was one particular character who had my vote as number one suspect and was...
Overall, a very good story. I was positive I knew who the killer was until the very end, when I was proved very wrong. All the characters in the white house kitchen were likeable and I enjoyed reading about them. There were a couple of times when the main character waxed lyrical about the honor of...
In my quest to find a new cozy mystery series I will enjoy as much as I did the Joanne Fluke series, I think I have found it. What fun characters the author has developed.Ollie is a chef at the White House and is dating a man of the Secret Service (in secret). She finds herself in an unusual situati...
4.1I was surprised by this book. I admit that I had judged the book and the title and shrugged and kept walking. I came back to it on a whim and I'm glad I did. The characters and the pacing kept me interested and the mystery kept me on my toes.I will have to complain about the redundancy of some ph...
I blazed through this book in a day and a half, and for the most part enjoyed it. Ollie is ditzy yet headstrong in the way cozy mystery heroines typically are, but her role as a White House chef adds some interest in her characterization. None of the other characters are particularly fleshed out but...
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