Josie Marcus plans to savor sampling the local St. Louis cuisine for a City Eats food tour. But her appetite is ruined at Tillie’s Off the Hill Italian Restaurant when another customer is poisoned. Was the victim the real target-or is someone trying to ruin Tillie’s reputation? It’s up to Josie to find a killer who has no reservations about preparing a dish to die for…
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Sexual Content - 1/5
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Violence - 1/5
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Language - 1/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 1/5
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Summary
Overall The Josie Marcus Myster Shopper series books are alwaysfun, but this one is definitely not one of the best. Josie is so busy mismanaging her personal relationships (small sample: she tells her elderly mother that she doesn't want daughter Amelia to be an orphan \"even if you don't care about your own daughter\") that the mystery suffers. There's a glaringly obvious early clue, but Josie solvesthe mystery only because she overhears the murderers conveninently laying out the entire crime in an implausible \"I did this and then you did that\" style. The story has quite a bit of St. Louis culinary detail, if you've every wondered about brain sandwiches.
Violence There's a little violence in the obligatory final hairsbreadth escape.