Beat Until Stiff (Signed)

Johnson, Claire M.

ISBN 10: 1590580400 / ISBN 13: 9781590580400

Published by Poisoned Pen Press, Signed first edition, 2002

About this Item

Hardcover in dust jacket. 8vo. First printing. SIGNED on title page by the author, whose first book this is. Book's setting is San Francisco's cut-throat restaurant trade. Book and jacket are in fine, as new condition. 203 pp. In protective Mylar.

Seller Inventory # 74420

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beat Until Stiff (Signed)
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, Signed first edition
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590580400
• ISBN 13: 9781590580400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Experienced pastry chef Johnson whips up an insider look at San Francisco s cut-throat restaurant trade. Cranky Mary Ryan has sunk a lot of time and talent into the in-vogue American Fare, the town s hottest spot, while grieving over her broken marriage. At work very early one morning, she steps on a laundry bag stuffed with the dead body of one of her employees. The investigation soon exposes all the dirty secrets that the food business would like to keep secret: the philandering chefs, the silly whims of the dining public, the hiring of illegal aliens, and the subsistence-living pay scale. Events begin to spiral that in time take out the restaurant s celebrity chef and force Mary to use her unique skills to uncover a poisonous scheme....

About the Author

Claire M. Johnson completed the California Culinary Academy’s program for professional chefs in 1983 and worked as a pastry chef in San Francisco and Oakland for eight years. Set in the restaurant world, Ms. Johnson’s first novel, Beat Until Stiff, won the 1999 Malice Domestic Writer’s Grant. She lives in Lafayette, California, with her husband, two children, and numerous animals.