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Title: Cook the Books

Subtitle: Gourmet Girl Mysteries, Book 5

Author: Susan Conant

Narrator: Erin Spencer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

It's a recipe for disaster when Chloe Carter takes a job working for a cookbook writer - and plunges into a sizzling stew of malice and murder.

If you can't take the heat....

Gourmet girl Chloe Carter is keeping busy with grad school and spoiling her best friend's three-month-old son. Now, courtesy of Craigslist, she has a new job as assistant to cookbook author Kyle Boucher - a job that stirs up painful memories of her ex-boyfriend Josh, who chose the shimmering beaches of Hawaii over a life with her on the mean streets of Boston. The gig heats up when Boucher asks her to compile a book of recipes from Boston's top chefs. Chloe leaps from the frying pan into the fire when she arrives for a meeting with Digger, one of Josh's friends and a rival chef, and discovers a dead body instead. Digger died of smoke inhalation from a blaze that started in his kitchen. Unable to believe that an executive chef would allow a grease fire to get so out of control, Chloe starts an unofficial search for the murderer. As if she didn't have enough on her plate already, now Josh is back in town. Chloe must decide where her future truly lies, but as a killer prepares to strike again, the amateur detective will find herself racing against time to protect those nearest and dearest to her. This audiobook features mouth-watering recipes sure to satisfy more than just your appetite for crime. Cook the Books is the fifth book in the Gourmet Girl Mysteries, but you may enjoy listening to the series in any order.

Members Reviews:

Great series

Love the characters. Interesting read and especially like the food descriptions and the recipes included at the end. This is the 3rd or 4th in a series. Should read in series order.

Cookbook conundrums

This is the 5th book in the Gourmet Girl series and picks up shortly after the events in the 4th book. While school is going well for Chloe, her love life is a mess after Josh leaves to go to Hawaii, and her budget is in shambles after spending lots of money on gifts for her best friend's new baby. She decides to find a job to help her financial situation and take her mind off of Josh. Chloe finds a great opportunity in working for Kyle Boucher, on a cookbook collating recipes from restaurants around Boston, and gets the job, even though she brings her best friend, desperate to get out of the house, to the dinner interview. Chloe finds out that the task is more daunting than she anticipated; while Kyle is the son of a famous chef, and is preparing the book under his father's headline, he doesn't seem to have much talent when it comes to food, and lacks organization/direction. When Chloe goes to taste test some new recipes from Josh's friend, Digger, from the menu of his newly opening restaurant, she is shocked to find that his apartment has burned and that Digger is apparently the victim of a grease fire. Chloe is suspicious, and begins digging in to see if she can help find out what happened. Her investigation is complicated by the return of Josh, bringing out some conflicting feelings. Will Chloe find the killer and will she work out things with Josh? The end of the novel makes a nice conclusion to the story and possibly the series. While I figured out the killer early on, it was a pleasant cozy mystery. As usual, recipes from the story are included at the end of the book.

This book was ok -- an easy read. But

This book was ok -- an easy read.