Red Beans and Vice - Softcover

Temple, Lou Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312982895 ISBN 13: 9780312982898

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2002

Synopsis

Chef and restauranteur Heaven Lee has been in plenty of scrapes in her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. This time around, she's cooking up trouble in New Orleans while visiting to help the Sisters of the Holy Trinity hold their annual benefit dinner. The convent is having financial problems and only Heaven Lee's culinary creativity can offer hope. Unfortunately, before she can really get cooking, Heaven's old friend Mary's husband, HeavelkjTruely Whitten, coffee importer and native New Orleanian, is found murdered with Heaven's own knife. To make matters worse, the convent's sacred cross simultaneously turns up missing. When she becomes the prime suspect, Heaven has no choice but to put her pots and pans aside and pursue the villain in order to both clear her own name and get dinner on the table in time for the big benefit. Heaven's smart, saucy attitude spurs her on in the search for the vicious murderer as well as for the perfect New Orleans dish to serve the Sisters. When all else fails, she finds the answers to both puzzles right under her own nose, saving the day and serving up a new signature Heaven Lee dish, Nola Pie. The delectable dessert is guaranteed to tantalize reader's taste buds and the satisfying mystery will leave them begging for seconds.

About this title

Review:

"[Heaven Lee] is a charming heroine."--"Chicago Tribune"

About the Author:

Lou Jane Temple is an adventurer. She has taken on the food world, cooking and catering, being a restaurateur, writing about food and wine, and authoring six culinary mysteries featuring Heaven Lee. She has also bee a guest chef at the Culinary Institute of America and at the famed James Beard Foundation. Lou Jane lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312982895
• ISBN 13: 9780312982898
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288