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the
wrong menu
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ISBN 0-7552-0239-2
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I had fun writing the wrong menu. I had to research into one of
my favourite pastimes, good food. I was helped by the father of a
friend
of my son who owned a much visited Italian restaurant. He allowed
me to take a close look behind the scenes. The book is about a famous
celebrity chef who uses his renowned eatery as cover for a lucrative
drug racket. It also deals with the complex relationship between
an
11 year old girl and her step-dad who she adored. My daughter,
who was 11 at the time, helped me with the pre-teen dialogue.
If you are interested in food and enjoy a fast moving thriller
with interesting sub plots, you’ll like this.
A reader e-mailed me and wrote, ‘The food bits are fun, the story
pacey. I didn’t like Ralph, but he got cooked in the end.’
Posted on the previous publisher’s website. ‘Edgy,
sinister with real background and detail about the restaurant business
and
characters that you love or hate.’
Storyline
The famous celebrity chef, Ralph Launcier, owner of the acclaimed
Devon restaurant, Mangia, senses danger when he discovers that
his brother-in-law and so called
best friend, Cameron, is secretly questioning his inheritance and acquisition
of the notorious eatery. What if Cameron unearths the truth and exposes Ralph’s
lucrative cocaine dealership? Ralph would fall from fame; everything he’d
created would be ruined.
Ralph, personable and outwardly charming, worries only for his self-survival.
Dispassionately, he hatches a plan for Cameron’s demise. It involves his
own wife sleeping with Cameron for information and Cameron’s wife, Ralph’s
sister, spying on her husband. But it backfires. Ralph, not Cameron, plunges
to his death in the white foam of the raging Cornish sea; and it’s Cameron
who ends up in prison, charged with Ralph’s murder.
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