Bread on Arrival (Heaven Lee Culinary Mysteries) - Softcover

Temple, Lou Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312969422 ISBN 13: 9780312969424

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 1999

Synopsis

When murder strikes at a bread-making convention, Heaven Lee must rise to the occasion...

Having overcome a series of failed careers, sassy sometime-sleuth Heaven Lee has found her own slice of paradise as a pre-eminent Kansas City chef. When the ARTOS (Greek for bread) convention comes to town, Heaven looks forward to nothing more than gathering some bread-making tips, but things start to heat up when one of her colleagues falls to his death from a grain elevator and another is found murdered in a pan of bread dough. Add to this recipe the startling fact that someone has tainted some of the convention's dough, causing its eaters to go temporarily insane, and Heaven's got more on her plate than most cooks can handle...

About this title

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.

From Kirkus Reviews

Temples hardcover debut features energetic, meant-to-be-lovable Heaven Lee, the five-times-married mother of 22-year-old Iris; girlfriend of medical resident Hank; and owner of Caf Heaven in Kansas City, Missouri. Pauline, the restaurants baker, is a board member of ARTOS, a national bread-baking group hosting a convention in Kansas City and environs. The group has plans to visit experimental farms growing new wheat varieties, and also to stop in at the plant of the very commercial, much- scorned BIG BREAD, which has been funding the cloning research of General Irwin Mills. During the ARTOS visit to BIG BREAD, said General falls to his death from atop a siloperhaps to the satisfaction of scientist Walter Jinks, whose ideas on feeding the world are directly opposed to those of Mills. Yet another track is that of Mennonite Ernest Powell, whose mission is to put a bread-making machine into every kitchen, using traditional red turkey with wheat flour, of course. The conventions last days bring death to a world-famous baker and a kind of mass spaciness to the participants. It takes a hairbreadth escape from her own demise for Heaven to get to the bottom of it all. An imaginative if off-the-wall plot, a hep heroine, and a slew of clip-worthy recipes help to offset the never-ending lectures on enzymes, glutens, wheats, ryes, and more. Heavens further adventures, preferably breadless, are anticipated. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0312969422
• ISBN 13: 9780312969424
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288