Description: Pastry chef Mary Ryan is back to teaching at her old alma mater when she is told to force Coolie Martin to leave the school. When faculty begin dying, Mary thinks that Coolies forced exit might only be part of a larger, more sinister plot.
Brief description:
Claire M. Johnson completed the California Culinary Academy's program for professional chefs in 1983 and worked as a pastry chef in San Francisco and Oakland for eight years. Her first novel, Beat until Stiff, won the 1999 Malice Domestic Writer's Grant. She lives in Lafayette, California, with her husband, two children, and numerous animals.
Review Quotes:
"Johnson's best Mary Ryan novel yet! Roux Morgue is a sacher torte of a book, delightfully layered with prose, plot, pace, and character. Dig into Roux Morgue immediately! And order anything this terrific cozy writer whips up in her highly talented and well-stocked literary kitchen."
-- "Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times bestselling author of One Was a Soldier"