A Taste to Die for (ebook)

Argumento de A Taste to Die for (ebook)

Chefs can be arrogant, competitive and downright murderous at times, so when Bath International Taste Extravaganza (BITE for short) organize a best chef competition, Honey Driver, the Hotels' Association police liaison officer, senses trouble.Her instinct proves correct when the winning chef is found dead in his own kitchen. Then a second, and a third...On top of this Honey's mother has fallen for the charms - and the white Rolls Royce - of a wealthy butcher, supplier to the catering trade. Is he really after her mother's body - well preserved as it is - or is he after the hotel's meat account? Honey's own relationship with dishy DCI Doherty is on hold. He's pooped - too tired even to fall for Honey's ample charms. As for the murderer, is this a case of past grievances? And once it's solved, will Honey finally get her man?

'The kick-off to Goodhind's new mystery series - fast moving with a likeable heroine and an impeccably rendered Bath background...'

Steve Doherty finally tracked Smudger down after the evening shift and asked him what time hed left the pub the night Oliver Stafford was killed. They were going to do a recheck because someone had mislaid the original statements. Smudger told him he couldnt remember but the barmaid would. Steve said he would check.

And where were you the night Brian Brodie was killed?

With a friend.

A girlfriend?

Whoever the girlfriend was seemed to check out. Honey hadnt pressed him about her. What he did in his personal life was his own business.

And the Grande Epicure? shed asked once Doherty had left. You were going to tell me about it.

Hed avoided her eyes. Its a competition in Paris.

For chefs?

Of course.

Smudger had worked for a five-star hotel before coming to work for her. Shed sometimes asked herself why. The prestige of a five-star always outranked a four in a chefs estimation. It looked good on the CV, just in case they got to open their own restaurant or end up with their own television programme.

Hed admitted that Oliver Stafford, Brian Brodie and Sylvester Pardoe were there too.

Who won?

Hed shrugged. I dont remember.

He was lying. Honey knew it, deep in her deepest whatever, that he was lying, and she told him so. He shrugged and turned away seeming to prefer the sizzling of a hot pan to facing further questions.

In the two years since hed worked for her shed never known him lie. But he was lying now. She was sure of it.

'Sometimes it is the location alone makes you curious about a detective novel....Jean G Goodhind in her debut novel has added much more than that - a droll plot and a lot of British humour...'

Jean G. Goodhind is a popular writer of women?s fiction, romance and comedy. For many years she owned and ran a haunted guest house on the outskirts of Bath and was one of the founder members of the Bath Hotel and Restaurant Association. Her experiences inspired the international bestselling Honey Driver series. She has won a BBC Radio award for scriptwriting. She also writes women?s fiction as Lizzie Lane and has writes a regular column for the Western Daily Press.0