num_pages: 282
description: At a local Chinese restaurant it's the owner who gets taken out...Most folks aren't forced by court order to attend a library-book discussion group but thats just what happens to B and B proprietor and ex-Manhattanite Bea Cartwright hippy cat lover Chandra Morrisey and winery owner Kate Wilder after a small-town magistrate has had enough of their squabbling. South Bass an island on Lake Erie is home to an idyllic summer resort but these three ladies keep disturbing the peace.The initial book choice is Agatha Christies Murder on the Orient Express and that sets their mouths to watering. The Orient Express is the islands newest Chinese restaurant. They might not agree about much but the ladies all love the orange chicken on the menu. But their meal is spoiled when the restaurants owner Peter Chan has the bad fortune of getting murdered. Now with Christie as their inspiration the League of Literary Ladies has a real mystery to solveif they can somehow catch a killer without killing each other first.
language: English
title: Mayhem at the Orient Express
publisher: Berkley