HemGrupperDiskuteraMerTidsandan
Sök igenom hela webbplatsen
Denna webbplats använder kakor för att fungera optimalt, analysera användarbeteende och för att visa reklam (om du inte är inloggad). Genom att använda LibraryThing intygar du att du har läst och förstått våra Regler och integritetspolicy. All användning av denna webbplats lyder under dessa regler.

Resultat från Google Book Search

Klicka på en bild för att gå till Google Book Search.

Laddar...

A Soufflé of Suspicion

av Daryl Wood Gerber

Serier: French Bistro (2)

MedlemmarRecensionerPopularitetGenomsnittligt betygOmnämnanden
278858,287 (3.92)3
Fiction. Mystery. HTML:When Chef Camilleâ??s sister turns up dead in the kitchen, it's up to Mimi Rousseau to tease the real killer out of a mélange of menacing characters
Crush Week in Nouvelle Vie is a madhouseâ??in a good way. Tourists pour into town for the pressing of the Napa Valleyâ??s world-renowned grapes and all the townâ??s businesses get a nice lift, including Bistro and Maison Rousseau. Mimi is raising the ante this year with a Sweet Treats Festival, a wonderland of croissants, cakes, tarts, and soufflés crafted with expert care by the areaâ??s top talents.
Chef Camilleâ??s sister Renee is managing the festival with a cast-iron fist, upsetting everyone, including her sister. Which is bad for Camille when Renee turns up dead in the chefâ??s kitchen. Mimi is still building her business, so her first course of action is to whip up answers and catch the unsavory perpetrator before Camille takes a dusting and gets burned.
Fans of JoAnna Carl and Joanne Fluke will want a succulent second serving of A Soufflé of Suspicion, Daryl Wood Gerberâ??s appetizing seco
… (mer)
Ingen/inga
Laddar...

Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken.

Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.

» Se även 3 omnämnanden

A Souffle of Suspicion was the second installment in the French Bistro series! I loved every single second of it! I loved getting to know the characters in this book!

It is Crush Week in Napa Valley as well as a Sweet Treats Festival at Mimi's Restaurant and Inn! This is wonderful word of mouth for her new businesses. It is even more exciting that she was able to help her head chef Camille's sister Rene in helping with a place for her festival to be.

Rene seems to be ahead of things when it comes to the festival, even though she has left her husband and is staying with her sister. Though she seems to rub a few people the wrong way even her sister. This wouldn't seem unusual in the slightest if Rene wasn't found murdered in Camille's kitchen. It looks as if she was in the middle of making a chocolate souflee, Camille's boyfriend's favorite dessert. However there was trouble in paradise as well when Rene's husband shows up and seems pretty sketchy.

This was a fantastic read and it kept me on my toes the entire time! I am normally quite adept at figuring out the 'whodunit' when it comes to Cozies, but this one had me on the edge of my seat the whole entire time! I highly recommend this series to anyone who loves recipes, fun characters, and a great mystery!


****Thanks to the Cozy Mystery Review Crew and Crooked Lane Books for a complimentary ARC of this book. My review is voluntary.
( )
  Courtagonist | Aug 15, 2022 |
I haven't read the first book in this series but it didn't detract from this story. The past was mentioned with enough info to fill in the blanks without reiterating the entire book. This book was excellent! The characters were great with lots of variety and lots of quirks. The food was delicious sounding. Why don't I have a good French Bistro close by? And the mystery was very good. Kept you guessing to the end and was very entertaining. Loved the setting of Napa Valley and the Bistro and the main character, Mimi, is a very determined woman with a big heart. Can't wait to read more of this series.
I received a free copy of this book and voluntarily chose to review it.
( )
  KathyC200 | Mar 22, 2020 |
I absolutely loved this book. I received it for free and I voluntarily chose to review it. I've given it a 5* to this cozy mystery. An added plus, 14 recipes included.This really kept me guessing till the end.Plenty of twists and turns to keep me turning the pages.The heroine is run ragged and dodging attacks. There is even a few kitties around. ( )
  NancyLuebke | Sep 13, 2019 |
Mimi Rousseau owns an inn and bistro in Nouvelle Vie, California. It is crush week, and tourists are filling the town, also to participate in the first-ever Sweet Treats Festival, being run by Chef Camille's sister Renee, who has left her husband to manage the festival. Everything seems to be going fine, but then problems begin to arise - arguments between Renee and others; Renee's husband Rusty showing up and wanting her to come home again.

While Mimi isn't really concerned, that all changes when she receives a phone call from Camille and arrives at Camille's home to find Renee dead. Camille is cleared of the crime shortly, but that still leaves plenty of suspects - and most of them are connected to the festival in one way or another. Will Mimi be able to keep her bistro up and running with a killer on the loose? Or will someone else be a target - including Mimi herself?

This is the second book in the French Bistro series, and as such I felt it was an improvement over the first. The characters are better developed, and Mimi is finally finding her footing in her new venture and in her relationship with Nash, the ex-wine salesman who is now managing her mother's vineyard.

However, Nash's ex-wife Willow is trying to throw a wrench into the works as it were, and Mimi doesn't do a lot to stop her yet wondering how to deal with it. She rather avoids the situation instead of confronting it head on, which makes her a contradiction of sorts since she has no problem confronting people about their alibis at the time of the murder and then verifying if they are telling the truth. It's a little confusing how she'll confront possible murderers but not her boyfriend's ex-wife. She says as how she likes Mimi, but since Willow is trying to break up her relationship with Nash it makes you wonder how Mimi thinks. I'd be leery of someone like that, and I certainly wouldn't care for them much.

Mimi also laments how gorgeous Willow is compared to her. Well, Willow wears makeup for one thing, and a little makeup goes a long way. Perhaps Mimi should consider mascara, blush, lipstick (not lip gloss as these authors think all women wear, which is pretty much for preteens and teenagers) and a little eye shadow and she'd be surprised at the transformation. (I honestly get so tired of all these protagonists 'throwing on a little lip gloss' and thinking they're hot. Four out of five American women wear makeup every day - except in cozies - and you'd think it was an anomaly or something. As one of those makeup-wearing women, I'd like to see at least a few of them wear more than lip gloss). Anyway, that's just my opinion.

While her attention is focused instead on finding Renee's killer since she can see how miserable Camille is and she wants to ease her pain as much as she can, there is also a nice subplot of how Mimi is finding herself the owner of two cats who have appeared to have adopted her; and it's kind of sweet to see how she just allows the situation to continue and even sort of welcomes it when she feels she's a little nervous that the killer is getting a bit too close.

Close enough that the murderer thinks she's a threat and starts treating it as such; even though Mimi tries to brush it off, deep down she knows that someone is figuring out she's asking too many questions and isn't happy about it, and that's when things start to get interesting.

There are plenty of diversions and a lot going on, making for a very busy book indeed, but most of it is centered on the festival itself and the restaurant, leaving very little time for real clues to add up. I enjoyed the mystery, there were plenty of red herrings, and the writing flowed at a nice pace. However, if you pay attention the clues are there and the story was told well.

In the end everything was settled satisfactorily with all loose ties coming together nicely, and even a little bit of a teaser for the next in the series. All in all it was an enjoyable read that makes us want to look for the next book. There are quite a few nice recipes in the back also for those who enjoy baking (I do). Recommended. ( )
  joannefm2 | Jul 19, 2018 |
Both Crush Week and the new Sweet Treats Festival are happening at the same time in Napa Valley. Mimi Rousseau wisely lets the Festival utilize her various gardens at Maison Rousseau for sites of things like booths and bake offs. When festival organizer Renee is found dead in Chef C's kitchen (they were sisters), Mimi takes on the task of trying to collect information to clear her friends. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The food descriptions throughout sound very good and the author backs up many of them with several recipes at the end. I like how the characters seem like family to one another, particularly the employees at the Bistro. ( )
  ethel55 | Jul 13, 2018 |
inga recensioner | lägg till en recension

Ingår i serien

Du måste logga in för att ändra Allmänna fakta.
Mer hjälp finns på hjälpsidan för Allmänna fakta.
Vedertagen titel
Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk.
Originaltitel
Alternativa titlar
Första utgivningsdatum
Personer/gestalter
Viktiga platser
Viktiga händelser
Relaterade filmer
Motto
Dedikation
Inledande ord
Citat
Avslutande ord
Särskiljningsnotis
Förlagets redaktörer
PÃ¥ omslaget citeras
Ursprungsspråk
Kanonisk DDC/MDS
Kanonisk LCC

Hänvisningar till detta verk hos externa resurser.

Wikipedia på engelska

Ingen/inga

Fiction. Mystery. HTML:When Chef Camilleâ??s sister turns up dead in the kitchen, it's up to Mimi Rousseau to tease the real killer out of a mélange of menacing characters
Crush Week in Nouvelle Vie is a madhouseâ??in a good way. Tourists pour into town for the pressing of the Napa Valleyâ??s world-renowned grapes and all the townâ??s businesses get a nice lift, including Bistro and Maison Rousseau. Mimi is raising the ante this year with a Sweet Treats Festival, a wonderland of croissants, cakes, tarts, and soufflés crafted with expert care by the areaâ??s top talents.
Chef Camilleâ??s sister Renee is managing the festival with a cast-iron fist, upsetting everyone, including her sister. Which is bad for Camille when Renee turns up dead in the chefâ??s kitchen. Mimi is still building her business, so her first course of action is to whip up answers and catch the unsavory perpetrator before Camille takes a dusting and gets burned.
Fans of JoAnna Carl and Joanne Fluke will want a succulent second serving of A Soufflé of Suspicion, Daryl Wood Gerberâ??s appetizing seco

Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas.

Bokbeskrivning
Haiku-sammanfattning

Pågående diskussioner

Ingen/inga

Populära omslag

Snabblänkar

Betyg

Medelbetyg: (3.92)
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3 3
3.5
4 7
4.5
5 2

Är det här du?

Bli LibraryThing-författare.

 

Om | Kontakt | LibraryThing.com | Sekretess/Villkor | Hjälp/Vanliga frågor | Blogg | Butik | APIs | TinyCat | Efterlämnade bibliotek | Förhandsrecensenter | Allmänna fakta | 203,228,688 böcker! | Topplisten: Alltid synlig