3.5 stars for Cooking Up Murder (Cooking Class Mystery book 1) by Miranda Bliss.
Once again, I choose to read a book because of its lovely book cover. Yes, first impression does matter.
Cooking Up Murder is narrated by a 35-year old Annie Capshaw who works as a bank teller for as long as she remembers. She tells of how and why her best friend, Eve DeCateur signs both of them up for a 10-day cooking class at Tres Bonne Cuisine.
To get back at one of Eve's ex-fiance, a Tyler Cooper who is now Lieutenant of the Police Department and put in-charge of the mysterious case involving the death of a man in the parking lot behind the cooking class store, Eve decides to take things into her hands to solve the case. Reluctantly, Annie agrees to help.
I think it is a good idea to make a case story out of food and culinary skills, thrusting the mundane of attending a cooking class into an exciting forward looking evening with an air of secrecy.
The story is smooth flowing and well paced with bits of light-hearted humor sprinkled here and there. It is also quite funny reading about our protagonist and her culinary skills which is practically non-existent. In fact, Annie is a disaster waiting to happen when it comes to cooking.
All in all, a cheerful and relaxing read into the mystery genre which I have left off for a long long time.
Publisher: Berkley
Publication date: 7 Nov 2006
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Annie and Eve are life-long best friends who have absolutely nothing in common-except a lack of skill in the kitchen. So when they sign up for a cooking class at the local gourmet shop, they figure the only things at risk are a few innocent fruits and vegetables.
But on the first night, Annie and Eve see their fellow student Beyla arguing with a man-a man who later turns up dead in the parking lot.
Now the friends feel bound to uncover whatever secrets she's hiding, before someone else's goose-perhaps one of their own-gets cooked.
*Blurb from FantasticFiction*
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