Crafts and Life

Angie first meets Daniel Monet at a local mission, where she and her chef-in-training, Hope, are serving barbeque chicken poutine to the homeless. Monet is one of Hope’s teachers—but Angie’s boyfriend knows him from his youthful days in England, and he went by a different name back then. After Sheriff Brown shows up the next morning to report that the pseudo-French gourmet has been dead on top of a pool table, the victim of poisoned wine, it seems his real name might not have been the only secret he was hiding. The bon vivant is no longer vivant, and with Hope’s prints on the glass, it’ll be Angie who has to sauce out the real killer . . .

Another brilliant book by Lynn Cahoon, I never thought you could improve on perfection but somehow she has done it!

Felicia's current boyfriend runs a mission and once a month a local restaurant will come and cook for it, this time it is the turn of The County Seat and Angie is prepared to cook for 250 people on her own, but then her whole kitchen team and her boyfriend Ian turn up to help! Felicia is there as well, and then Hope's professor arrives, which startles Ian as he seems to know Daniel Monet by a different name, and nationality. Angie doesn't think any more of it until Daniel is found dead and Hope's fingerprints are at the crime scene.

No one at The County Seat can believe that Hope, their dishwasher/gofer/chef in training has anything to do with this, other than being young and naive, oh and in the wrong place at the wrong time, so Angie and Felicia start snooping to find out the truth.