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Beat Until Stiff (Mary Ryan Series)

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Ergodebooks
(Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America)

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Descripción Softcover. Condición: new. Product Description Experienced pastry chef Claire Johnson whips up an insiders look at San Francisco's cutthroat restaurant trade. Cranky Mary Ryan has sunk a lot of time and talent into the in-vogue American Fare, the town's hottest spot, while grieving over her broken marriage. At work very early one morning, she steps on a laundry bag stuffed with the dead body of one of her employees. The investigation soon exposes all the dirty secrets that the food business would like to keep secret: the philandering chefs, the silly whims of the dining public, the hiring and illegal aliens, and the subsistence-living pay scale. Events begin to spiral that, in time, take out the restaurant's celebrity chef and force Mary to use her unique skills to uncover a poisonous scheme. Hard-edged, filled richly with restaurant lore and murder galore, this is a mystery debut to savor. Review "The restaurant business--its food, financing and philosophy--is here in all its complexity for discriminating mystery palates."--Publishers Weekly"Claire M. Johnsons Beat Until Stiff deserves enthusiastic mention as a very special title which offers an unusually frank view of the cooking and restaurant scene in San Francisco.? Herself a professional and experienced pastry chef, Claire Johnson presents the reader with a lively style that mixes autobiography with culinary and social insights.? Highly recommended!" ?? --Midwest Book Review?"Willy nilly, Johnson takes you there in a fast and furious place, often reminiscent of the theatrical ditto, complete with Hamlets and Greek choruses and magicians who dont quite get it right. Not only is this a treat; I read it through twice to make sure it was as good as I thought." -- Marilis Hornidge, The Courier-Gazette?"Great plot with good characters and youll learn a lot about the restaurant business, since author Johnson is also a pastry cook." -Culinary Mystery About the Author Claire M. Johnson completed the California Culinary Academys program for professional chefs in 1983 and worked as a pastry chef in San Francisco and Oakland for eight years. Set in the restaurant world, Ms. Johnsons first novel, Beat Until Stiff, won the 1999 Malice Domestic Writers Grant. She lives in Lafayette, California, with her husband, two children, and numerous animals. Nº de ref. del artículo: DADAX1590585003

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