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Jul 2009 Issue
By Josi S. Kilpack
Everyone loves a good mystery, and culinary mysteries are one of the country’s fastest growing genres. They combine a reader’s love for food and recipes with suspense and intrigue. Deseret Book publishing enters the genre for the first time with Lemon Tart (Deseret Book, $16.95) by award-winning novelist Josi S. Kilpack.
“Some people read cookbooks like novels, so why not write a novel that has recipes too?” asked Kilpack, who has published eight other novels including Her Good Name, To Have or To Hold and Unsung Lullaby.
This is her first foray into the culinary mystery genre, but she says it will not be her last. She is planning a whole series of food related thrillers, all featuring the heroine of Lemon Tart, Sadie Hoffmiller.
Sadie is a cooking aficionado, turned amateur detective after her neighbor, a beautiful, single mom named Anne Lemmon is mysteriously killed. At the heart of Sadie’s search is her neighbor’s missing two-year-old son, Trevor. Whoever took the child must be the murderer, but Sadie is certain that the police are looking at all the wrong suspects, including her.
Armed with a handful of her very best culinary masterpieces, Sadie is determined to bake her way to proving her innocence, rescuing Trevor and uncovering exactly who had a motive for murder.
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