This series has the best covers! I just love these wacky plots and fun characters, they keep me entertained all afternoon.

Again, loose threads and too many side stories going on that had nothing to do with the mystery and were left hanging at the end. But I'm soldiering on through the series :)

"Brooklyn has always been a little obsessed with food, but it was her sister Savannah who became a chef, graduating from the prestigious Cordon Bleu school in Paris. She and her classmates all went on to successful careers, but none of them achieved culinary superstardom like Savannah’s ex-boyfriend Baxter Cromwell.

When Baxter invites the old gang to participate in his new restaurant’s gala opening in San Francisco, Savannah looks forward to seeing her friends, and even asks Brooklyn to restore a tattered cookbook—an old gift from Baxter—as a present for him. But Brooklyn immediately recognizes that the book, which has strange notes and symbols scrawled in the margins, is at least two hundred years old. She thinks that it probably belongs in a museum, but Savannah insists on returning it to Baxter. Shortly after receiving the gift, Baxter is found dead, with Savannah kneeling over him, bloody knife in hand, and the rare cookbook has disappeared. Brooklyn knows her sister didn’t kill him, and she suspects the missing cookbook might lead to the real villain. Now Brooklyn will have to turn up the heat on the investigation before Chef Savannah finds herself slinging hash in a prison cafeteria."

This was really quite terrible. It was full of cliches, and just ridiculously corny throughout most of the book. Also found a few mistakes, and mistakes on a level that is just unacceptable for a book about a bibliophile. Someone somewhere should have caught the reference to Northanger Alley long before ink hit a page.

I was hungry a lot listening to this book, it seems that if the author is good at what she describes I want to eat it. I guess I'm like a Hobbit wanting my second breakfast and all.

Spoiler

Savannah was a great main suspect in the murder, you knew right off that Brooklyn would have to find the murderer and save her vegetarian sister.

I’ve been on the hunt for a good cost mystery series and I think I’ve just found it? This was wonderful

Another lovely addition to the Bibliophile mysteries, complete with romance, intrigue, murder, food, and of course, books. Well-crafted, kept me guessing until the end.

I finally figured out how/what I think about Derek, and now his brother Dalton....Tall, British, and Broody. I cannot help but to laugh that now there are two MI6 men in the series. I cannot wait to see when and if Dalton returns to San Francisco or even Dharma. Definitely one of the more interesting books. It was great reading about all their chef friends and finding out backstories and such. Good times! Another great read! Now to get on with the newest book in the series!

I enjoy this series.

A celebrity chef is murdered and Brooklyn's sister, Savannah, is a prime suspect, as are a number of her friends from culinary school days. At the time of the murder a valuable old cookbook is stolen which is as troubling to Brooklyn as the murder. Her partner, Derek, notices a code in the photocopies she had made of the cookbook and calls in his brother to see if there is a connection.

I love the characters in this series, but Brooklyn can be a bit annoying which is why I didn't give the book 5 stars. For several books now she has been brooding over her tendency to find dead bodies, and it's frankly getting a bit old. Other characters in mysteries are always tumbling over bodies and they just get on with it. She's also perpetually insecure about her relationship with Derek which is getting old as well. I know the author is just trying to make her seem more human, but I prefer mysteries where we don't have to focus on the messy emotions and can just get on with the investigations.