Shredding the Evidence

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Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / Cozy / Gerber, Daryl Wood	4-week checkout	Due 05-19-2024

"Includes tasty recipes!"--Page 4 of cover.
"The denizens of Crystal Cove are salivating over the upcoming Food Bowl Week, when local chefs offer some of their best and most imaginative creations in bite-size portions all over town. Bookstore proprietor Jenna Hart is hungry to sample as many of the delicacies as she can, but when she stumbles onto the dead body of a local food reporter and learns that her best friend's husband is the primary suspect, she'll have to summon the appetite for a side dish of sleuthing to prove his innocence. Jenna knows the ambitious and aggressive reporter, who was strangled at a fitness center with her shredded restaurant reviews scattered around her, left behind a long list of potential suspects. As she begins piecing together the scant clues, she uncovers illicit ties between the victim and a local newspaper owner, a spurned would-be lover, and a host of disgruntled restaurant owners not a bit torn up by the critical reporter's demise. And with a solution so close she can almost taste it, Jenna turns up the heat on the culprit, realizing too late that she's the next course on the murderer's menu..." -- Page 4 of cover.

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Disappointed - fat-phobic language submitted by ValerieL on July 17, 2023, 11:50am I'm very disappointed with this book and didn't even finish it due to the fat-phobic language used throughout the book. Book 8, Sifting Thru Clues, had some fat-phobic language but I thought it was just the one character. Unfortunately, there was more in this book (book 9). Consequently I will not be finishing this book, nor will I be reading any further in the series.

I did give the book 3 stars because the quality of the writing is still high, but all the negative comments on fat people and the descriptions of fat people just have turned me off. Now I'm even leery about reading anything else by this author.

If you don't care about fat-phobic language, I'm sure you'll enjoy this cozy mystery, but for me it's a no-go.