Shredding the Evidence

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>T</strong><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>he Agatha Award-winning author of <em>Sifting Through Clues</em> returns to the Cookbook Nook where a combative food reporter gets her just deserts . . .</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>The denizens of Crystal Cove are salivating over the upcoming Food Bowl Week when local chefs offer some of their best and most imaginative creations in bite-size portions all over town. Bookstore proprietor Jenna Hart is hungry to sample as many of the delicacies as she can but when she stumbles onto the dead body of a local food reporter and learns that her best friend's husband is the primary suspect she'll have to summon the appetite for a side dish of sleuthing to prove his innocence.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Jenna knows the ambitious and aggressive reporter who was strangled at a fitness center with <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>her shredded restaurant reviews scattered around her left behind a long list of potential suspects. As she begins piecing together the scant clues she uncovers illicit ties between the victim and a local newspaper owner a spurned would-be lover and a host of disgruntled restaurant owners not a bit torn up by the critical reporter's demise. And with a solution so close she can almost taste it Jenna turns up the heat on the culprit realizing too late that she's the next course on the murderer's menu . . .</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Includes tasty recipes!</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Praise for Daryl Wood Gerber and the Cookbook Nook Mysteries:</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There's a feisty new amateur sleuth in town and her name is Jenna Hart. With a bodacious cast of characters a wrenching murder and a collection of cookbooks to die for Daryl Wood Gerber's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Final Sentence</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a page-turning puzzler of a mystery that I could not put down. -Jenn McKinlay </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>New York Times</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> bestselling author of the Cupcake Mysteries and Library Lovers Mysteries</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Final Sentence</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the author smartly blends crime recipes and an array of cookbooks that all should covet in a witty well-plotted whodunit. -Kate Carlisle </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>New York Times</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> bestselling author of the Bibliophile Mysteries</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Readers will relish the extensive cookbook suggestions the cooking primer and the whole foodie phenomenon. Gerber's perky tone with a multigenerational cast makes this series a good match for Lorna Barrett's Booktown Mystery series . . . -</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Library Journal</em></p>