Death Of A Christmas Caterer
Lee Hollis
Kensington, Oct 7 2014, $7.99
ISBN: 9780758294517
In Bar Harbor, Maine, Island Times food and wine columnist single
mom (of teenagers Gemma and Dustin) Hayley Powell gets a
promotion from office manager to senior office manager with no pay increase or
any staff. Her boss Sal says her new
duty includes hosting the office Christmas party, which is tomorrow.
Haley commissions Garth Rawlings to cater the affair only to find
from Sal that the budgeting this year is one fifth of last year. Garth hangs up on her, but the next day he
hires her; paying her for a thousand dollars to help him for two days with
Midnight Madness after he learns her column is blowing up on Twitter. When Haley arrives to deliver food, she is
horrified to see Garth’s place on fire and him dead. With too much on her plate, Haley needs to
ignore the death of her new employer, but a Grinch wants her obituary in the
next edition of the Island Times.
The fifth Hayley Powell Food & Cocktails mystery (see Death of
a Country-Fried Redneck and Death of a Kitchen Diva) is an amusing cozy
starring an overworked protagonist. The
whodunit is lighthearted fun as Lee Hollis nicely combines humor and suspense
within a zany amateur sleuth.
Harriet Klausner
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