INHERIT THE WORD by Daryl Wood Gerber

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Inherit the Word, March 2014
Cookbook Nook #2
by Daryl Wood Gerber

Berkley Prime Crime
Featuring: Jenna Hart
305 pages
ISBN: 0425258076
EAN: 9780425258071
Kindle: B00EOARZMI
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"Recipes aren't the only thing to figure out in this delightful story"

INHERIT THE WORD
Daryl Wood Gerber

Reviewed by Sharon Salituro
Posted February 22, 2015

Mystery Cozy

Jenna has moved back to her home town to help out her Aunt Vera run the local bookstore. A big event is coming up, the annual Grill Fest. Everyone one in town of course wants to enter their recipe in the contest.

As everyone is running around getting all their ingredients together, one of the contestants is found dead. Who would have killed Natalie? Could it be just because in all the previous years she always came out the winner?

Jenna know she should keep her nose out of police business, but she can't stand by and watch one of her friends take the blame for this murder.

Daryl Wood Gerber writes a very funny book. She brings out the best and the worst in the main character Jenna. I really enjoyed INHERIT THE WORD. For those of you who like recipes, that are several at the end of the book. I for one am always interested in trying out new recipes.

Have read one other book by Daryl Wood Gerber, and enjoyed that book as much as I did INHERIT THE WORD.

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SUMMARY

When tempers get too hot to handle, someone's bound to get grilled.

Jenna Hart moved back to Crystal Cove, California, with the intention to relax and help her aunt, Vera, run the local culinary bookshop and café. But it's hard to follow a simple recipe for relaxation when murder gets thrown in the mix...

The Cookbook Nook is set to host the town's upcoming Grill Fest, a tasty tradition which pits local amateur chefs against one another to concoct the most delicious dishes. This year's challenge: Grilled Cheese. But with competing chefs bearing grudges from past years, more mouths are running off than salivating.

The expression "too many cooks" proves all too true when the eight–time champ is found murdered in the alley behind the café. Soon a local diner owner (and Jenna's "second mother") is suspected of bumping off the competition, and Jenna has to douse the flames before the wrong person gets burned...