Summary:
Carolyn Blue is a stay at home mom turned food critic. She travels with her husband to the American Chemical Society convention in New Orleans, where he is giving a paper, and where they plan to meet up with some old friends from college. At their first dinner get-together at the beginning of the trip, one of the old friends, Julienne, gets into a fight with her husband, in front of the rest of the diners, and storms off, never to be seen again. Literally. Carolyn spends the rest of her trip in New Orleans trying to hunt Julienne down while she samples all the local cuisine.
Thoughts:
Not bad, but not great either. I liked the looks of the recipes, which are included for some of the meals Carolyn dives into throughout the book, and I'll probably copy out a couple of them for future use. But the story itself was fairly predictable. I knew who dun it as soon as the character was introduced, and could see most of the twists coming, even while Carolyn wouldn't or couldn't admit it to herself. Carolyn is very much the busybody type, maternal to a fault, and imagines some sadly ridiculous scenarios. She also put far too much stock in the dream she had about Julienne, because what detective puts any kind of weight to a dream. I figured out far too much of the plot too far ahead for it to be really enjoyable, and the last hundred pages or so, I couldn't wait to be finished, and it's not even a long book anyway. I'm not planning on reading the rest of the series, but as I said, it's good for the recipes.
Book 10 of 50
Pages: 274
Genre: mystery, with a culinary twist
Grade: C+
Would I Recommend?: Maybe just for the recipes?
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