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Barcode30293102341562
LocationClark County
Call NoMystery F Aker
TitleTo kill a cook / W.M. Akers.
AuthorAkers, W. M., author.
CollectionF Mystery
Total Circ0
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102341562Mystery F Aker2/12/2026 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9798217044870 ebook
International Standard Book Number 9798217044863 (hardcover)
Personal Name Akers, W. M., author.
Title Statement To kill a cook / W.M. Akers.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2026.
Physical Description 337 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary, Etc. "Tender at the Bone meets Finlay Donovan is Killing It in this hilarious, fast-paced mystery about a feisty food critic in 1970s NY who finds her chef friend murdered and realizes she might be the only one to find the killer. Nobody in Manhattan eats better than Bernice Black. It's 1972, and she is the city's busiest restaurant critic, juggling her fiance and his two young sons with demands of fine dining. Bernice talks fast, walks faster, has a razor-sharp wit and no patience for anything -- or anyone -- that gets in her way. When she stops by the famed restaurant of her favorite chef and mentor, Laurent Tirel, early one morning, she stumbles across a horrific scene in the kitchen: Laurent's severed head, perfectly preserved in a flawless mold of jellied aspic. Her meeting with the cops assigned to the case proves only one thing-they know nothing about food or the seedy underworld that BB Black has made her home. With layoffs looming, Bernice makes the gamble of her career-she promises her editor she can catch Laurent's killer before the week is out. To Kill a Cook is a delicious, witty, fast-paced mystery with a lovable, unforgettable protagonist at it center"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Murder Investigation Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Cooks Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Restaurants Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Food writers Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.

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