I hadn’t realised how much work came after you got the dream, how much you had to sacrifice to hold it together year after year. I felt like a completely different person from that meek, twenty-two year old who’d talked about how brave she’d had to be to leave her hometown. If that girl saw me now, I’m not sure she’d recognise me.
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In a nutshell
Maria Capello is a celebrity chef with dozens of cookbooks, a TV show and a line of bestselling supermarket sauces. Before she was a household name, she was the timid wife of famous chef Damien Capello, whose mysterious disappearance she’s never spoken about publicly… until now. When editor Thea Woods is invited to Maria’s remote farmhouse to work on the manuscript of her tell-all memoir, Theo spots an opportunity. She could be the one to learn the truth – whether Maria killed Damien for his recipes…
Book Club Notes
This is a book within a book and both books are equally as enthralling and brilliant. It is a deliciously dark mystery that keeps you on your toes, gripped and starving for the next chapter. It wasn’t only the storyline that captured my attention, it was the recipes added after each chapter, perfectly named, that I kept tagging. I plan on making a handful of them, but best you believe my husband will be watching every ingredient that goes into them. “Here’s dinner, I got it from the dead husband cookbooks” does not incite excitement to eat.
Read If
You love a good mystery and fancy yourself a bit of a foodie.
Rating
Writing – 10/10
Character Development – 9/10
Plot Twist – 10/10
Shareability – 10/10
The Nitty Gritty
Published by: Viper book, distributed by Jonathon Ball
ISBN: 9781800819214
Pages: 317
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A note on our book ratings
Storyline: How good is the storyline? Is it believable and complex or does it make you shake your head in its ridiculousness?
Writing: How well written is the book? Do you find yourself wowed by the writing or unimpressed?
Character Development: Do the characters evolve and grow through the book and are they multi-dimensional?
Plot Twist: Were you able to predict the end, or did the author give you some surprises along the way to keep you on your toes?
Shareability: How likely are you to share the book?
