Mimi Rousseau is grateful to Bryan Baker, an entrepreneur who has funded her dream of opening a French bistro and inn and become a father figure to her. She's excited about the inn's first wedding, even more so as it features a celebrity talk show host. Unfortunately, family squabbles seem to be interfering with the overall joviality of the wedding party but nothing puts a damper on things like a dead body. Now, Bryan is dead and Mimi is a suspect. Can Mimi figure out who is behind Bryan's murder?
A DEADLY ΓCLAIR is the first book inΒ A French Bistro Mystery Β series. Daryl Wood Gerber introduces us to a whole host of characters with some complicated and quite entangled relationships. Angelica Edmonton, the famous talk show host, is Bryan's niece and sorting out the various relationships and how they might apply to the murder requires even Mimi to keep a dry erase board listing of who, what, and where.
I like how Daryl Wood Gerber ties together the similarity between creating recipes and investigating crimes. Mimi is an interesting character and I'd like to get to know her better. With the plethora of characters in A DEADLY ΓCLAIR, it was hard to focus on just one character, even though she was the main heroine. However, I have to admit that Heather Holmes intrigues me far more with her talk of aliens and a mysterious husband.
A DEADLY ΓCLAIR is packed full of scrumptious sounding foods and Daryl Wood Gerber provides readers with several mouth-watering recipes at the end of the book. I could practically smell the delicious flavors permeating the storyline as A DEADLY ΓCLAIR truly centers around food. If you love cozy culinary mysteries, then A DEADLY ΓCLAIR is exactly your cup of tea!
In Agatha-Award winning author Daryl Wood Gerber's delectable series debut, Mimi Rousseau serves up piping hot suspects to clear her name of murder. It’s always been Mimi Rousseau’s dream to open her own bistro, but it seems beyond her grasp since she’s been chased back home to Nouvelle Vie in Napa Valley by her late husband’s tremendous debt. Until her best friend Jorianne James introduces her to entrepreneur Bryan Baker who invests in promising prospects. Now, working Bryan’s bistro and inn until she’s able to pay it off and call it her own, Mimi is throwing the inn’s first wedding ever. The wedding will be the talk of the town, as famous talk show host Angelica Edmonton, daughter of Bryan’s wealthy friend, Eddie, has chosen the inn as her perfect venue. Anxious, Mimi is sure things are going to turn south, especially when Eddie gets drunk and rowdy at the rehearsal dinner, but by the evening, things begin to look up again. That is until six AM rolls around, and as Mimi arrives at the bistro to begin wedding preparations, Bryan is found dead with an éclair stuffed in his mouth. And the fingers point at Mimi, whose entire loan is forgiven in Bryan’s will. Now it’s up to Mimi to clear her name and get to the bottom of things before the killer turns up the heat again in A Deadly Éclair, the scrumptious series debut by Agatha Award-winning author Daryl Wood Gerber.
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