"Amusing amateur sleuth"
Scientist Jason Blue specializes in how to clean
toxins from the environment while his wife Carolyn is a
gourmet chef. Carolyn receives an advance to write a
cookbook on New Orleans cuisine. They travel to New York
because Hodge, Bruce & Byerson want to hire Jason to help
them with their "Cleaning the Environment Through
Chemistry" mission while Carolyn meets with her editor. Upon their arrival in the Big Apple, they learn that
someone murdered the person who recruited Jason. Without
informing one another, Jason and Carolyn independently
investigate the homicide. Though approaching the puzzle
differently, each of them draws the same conclusions about
the perpetrators. This reviewer provides two tips before reading this
complex mystery. First fill up with a big meal before
starting because the descriptions of food are salivating
and torturous. Second ignore why two amateurs would
investigate a killing especially since they are at best
remotely impacted. Nancy Fairbanks writes a delicious,
often amusing amateur sleuth story that will satiate the
sub-genre's gourmands. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted November 3, 2001
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