num_pages: 328
description: The buoyant mood at Bistro Rousseau deflates when Chef Camilles sister Renee turns up dead in the chefs kitchen and Mimi Rousseau must tease the real killer out of a mlange of menacing characters.Crush Week in Nouvelle Vie is a madhousein a good way. Tourists pour into town for the pressing of the Napa Valleys world-renowned grapes and all the towns businesses get a nice lift including Bistro and Maison Rousseau. Mimi is raising the ante this year with a Sweet Treats Festival a wonderland of croissants cakes tarts and souffls crafted with expert care by the areas top talents. Chef Camilles sister Renee is managing the festival with a cast-iron fist upsetting everyone including her sister. Which is bad for Camille when Renee turns up dead in the chefs kitchen. Mimi is still building her business so her first course of action is to whip up answers and catch the unsavory perpetrator before Camille takes a dusting and gets burned. Fans of JoAnna Carl and Joanne Fluke will want a succulent second serving of A Souffl of Suspicion Daryl Wood Gerbers appetizing second French Bistro mystery.
language: English
title: A Soufflé of Suspicion
publisher: Crooked Lane Books