To Kill a Cook

De: W. M. Akers

Narrado por: Mozhan Navabi

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Tender at the Bone meets Finlay Donovan is Killing It in this hilarious, fast-paced mystery about a feisty food critic in 1970s NY who finds her chef friend murdered and realizes she might be the only one to find the killer.

Nobody in Manhattan eats better than Bernice Black. It’s 1972, and she is the city’s busiest restaurant critic, juggling her fiance and his two young sons with demands of fine dining. Bernice talks fast, walks faster, has a razor-sharp wit and no patience for anything--or anyone--that gets in her way.

When she stops by the famed restaurant of her favorite chef and mentor, Laurent Tirel, early one morning, she stumbles across a horrific scene in the kitchen: Laurent's severed head, perfectly preserved in a flawless mold of jellied aspic.

Her meeting with the cops assigned to the case proves only one thing–they know nothing about food or the seedy underworld that BB Black has made her home. With layoffs looming, Bernice makes the gamble of her career—she promises her editor she can catch Laurent’s killer before the week is out.

To Kill a Cook is a delicious, witty, fast-paced mystery with a lovable, unforgettable protagonist at it center.

Enjoyable narration & main character 🍰🍗🍳🥞🥗🥮

The narration is exceptional. It fits both the main character and the grittiness of the city that was New York in the 1970s. Ditto the main character, Bernice Black. She's tough, resilient, kinda snarky, hardworking, and has no issue with jumping the turnstiles of the subway or walking around the dog and people messes left behind on almost every sidewalk.

That said. She makes a lot of questionable decisions. Like the classic...,oh let's confront possible killers in dark isolated areas and say to them....I know what you did! It's amazing she's still alive at the end of the book. I also struggled a bit with the relationship decisions she makes. She is an interesting but very flawed character.

Not sure audio is the best format in which to read this book. There are a lot of names and people to keep track of before the mystery is resolved. The descriptions of food are very appealing. Well, most of the time. You'll see.