Lou Jane Temple (1944–2023)
Autor de The Spice Box
Sobre El Autor
Series
Obras de Lou Jane Temple
A Case of Imagination 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1944
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2023-05-29
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Junction City, Kansas, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Junction City, Kansas, USA
Tybee Island, Georgia, USA - Educación
- Kansas City Art Institute
University of Missouri (Communications and Administration of Justice) - Ocupaciones
- chef
food critic
screenwriter
film director
store owner
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 11
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 733
- Popularidad
- #34,655
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 25
- Favorito
- 4
This book is set in 1789-90 and it contains quite a bit of historical fact. I found the first few chapters to be boring (you know I'm not big on minute description), but once I got past the ground work, I easily finished the book in a few hours time.
Fanny is a sous chef in a well appointed French household..... She finds herself searching for the answers to the murders of a mentor chef (once employed by the King of France) and the maitre d'hotel of the house in which she works.
Throw in the fact that her mother was in attendance of the mob that forced the king & Marie to return to Paris, she comes upon a cache of the Queens stolen jewels in her spice box, a very attractive policeman keeps popping up at inopportune times, her lover (head family chef) is kidnapped, and her dream of owning her own restaurant is finding a way of becoming reality......
Very interesting, yet as the story progressed the murderer was easily sussed out.… (más)