For Better or Hearse: An Annabelle Archer Mystery (Annabelle Archer Mysteries)
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ISBN: 0060739045 / Publisher: Avon, February 2006
Chased out of a posh hotel kitchen by a knife-wielding Chef Henri, wedding planner Annabelle Archer comes to the aid of an old friend, when the city's most despised culinary artist turns up dead, impaled on an ice sculpture, and Georgia Rhodes, the hotel's sometimes temperamental catering executive, becomes the prime suspect in the grisly killing. Original.
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Iced!Wedding planner extraordinaire Annabelle Archer is used to dealing with difficult personalities -- neurotic brides, despotic mothers, and prima donna bridesmaids. However, being chased from a swank hotel kitchen at knifepoint by a shrieking Chef Henri takes the cake. Soon after, Washington's most thoroughly despised culinary artist is discovered dead, impaled on an ice sculpture -- a crime which surprises no one, since revengeis, after all, a dish best served cold.Unfortunately, the police think the hotel's sometimes temperamental but always stylish catering exec (and Annabelle's good friend) Georgia Rhodes did Henri in -- so the planner and her posse set out to put thereal murderer on ice. But when the corpse of a rival culinarian turns up in a walk-in freezer -- and more nasty chef-deaths quickly follow -- the suspect list suddenly shrinks . . . as do Annabelle and her cronies' chances for survival, if they get caught poking around in a killer's kitchen.
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