Death Du Jour
Lou Jane Temple

Travel to Paris, 1790—where a well-executed meal may linger in the memory, but murder is forever.

Includes authentic recipes of eighteenth-century France!

Fanny Delarue is a young cook for a wealthy family in the Place Royale. In her heart, she is keeping two fires burning-for food, and for her head chef, Henri. Together they feed the household, above stairs and below, and take lessons from Henri's mentor, Etienne de la Porte, chef to a neighboring household.

At the same time, Fanny's trying to ignore the political heat that is building all around her. Chefs need to prove that food and cuisine can promote man's equality instead of reinforcing old class divisions, at the risk of losing their jobs...and perhaps their heads. Tempers flare and nerves are strained, until one day, Etienne is found dead under suspicious circumstances. Who would murder a cook? The Place Royale is in tumult, and Fanny must solve the crime before the flames converge on her hopes for her own future.

(A Spice Box Mystery)
Berkley (Prime Crime), March 2006
Featuring: Fanny Delarue
320 pages ISBN: 0425208060
Hardcover
$22.95

Also by Lou Jane Temple:
Death du Jour, January 2007
The Spice Box, April 2006
The Spice Box, May 2005

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