Claire M. Johnson
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English
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Cranky Mary Ryan has sunk a lot of time and talent into the American Fare, San Francisco's hottest spot, while grieving over her broken marriage. At work very early, she steps on a laundry bag stuffed with the dead body of one of her employees. The investigation soon exposes all the dirty secrets that the food business would like to keep secret: the philandering chefs, the silly whims of the dining public, the hiring of illegal aliens, and the
...2) Roux morgue
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Pub. Date
2008
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English
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San Francisco pastry chef Mary Ryan is back teaching at her old alma mater, caught between her original mentors and her contemporaries. In the middle of this turf war, Mary is confronted by the dean and ordered to either force Coolie Martin to leave the school or lose her job. But when faculty and staff begin dying, Mary thinks that Coolie's forced exit might be part of a larger, more sinister plot.