It’s always been Mimi Rousseau’s dream to open her own bistro, but it seems beyond her grasp since she’s been chased back home to Nouvelle Vie in Napa Valley by her late husband’s tremendous debt. Until her best friend Jorianne James introduces her to entrepreneur Bryan Baker who invests in promising prospects. Now, working the bistro and inn until she’s able to pay it off and call it her own, Mimi is throwing the inn’s first wedding ever.
The wedding will be the talk of the town, as famous talk show host Angelica Edmonton, daughter of Bryan’s half-brother, Edison, has chosen the inn as her perfect venue. Anxious, Mimi is sure things are going to turn south, especially when Edison gets drunk and rowdy at the out-of-towners’ dinner, but by the evening, things begin to look up again. That is until six AM rolls around, and Bryan is found dead at the bistro with an éclair stuffed in his mouth. And the fingers point at Mimi, whose entire loan is forgiven in Bryan’s will.
Now it’s up to Mimi to clear her name and get to the bottom of things before the killer turns up the heat again in A Deadly Éclair, the scrumptious series debut by Agatha Award-winning author Daryl Wood Gerber.
Mimi has headed home after one heartbreak too many, first off her husband died in a tragic climbing accident and then Mimi discovered that she was liable for his debts - and there were a LOT of debts. She had been salting away a large chunk of her salary since she started working, so that she could have her dream of her own bistro, but all that money has now gone. After working as a sous chef back in Napa Valley she was given the chance to start her dream, opening a bistro and attached Inn, by a local entrepreneur named Bryan Baker.
Now three months after the opening with things going well they have their biggest challenge yet, Bryan wishes to have his niece’s wedding at the bistro with all the guests staying at the Inn. So Mimi’s friend Jo (in charge of the Inn section), Chef Camille (Chef C to all who know her) and Mimi herself (along with the rest of the staff) are pulling out all the stops, during the dinner the night before the wedding there was some undoubted tension between various members of the wedding group, but no one would have expected the outcome being Bryan dead the following morning, nor would Mimi have expected to be first in the firing line as suspect.
Now Mimi needs to put the skills she normally uses to dissect a recipe to find out who is framing her for murder and why!
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