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For Better or Hearse Mass market paperbound - 2006

by Laura Durham

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Wedding planner Annabelle Archer investigates the mysterious death of a much-hated chef in this delightful second mystery from one of Washington, D.C.'s top wedding planners. 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 revenge is, 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 the real 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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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 revenge is, 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 the real 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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  • Title For Better or Hearse
  • Author Laura Durham
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Pages 258
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Avon Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Publication date February 28, 2006
  • ISBN 9780060739041 / 0060739045
  • Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.98 x 4.08 x 0.73 in (17.73 x 10.36 x 1.85 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Geographic Orientation: District of Columbia
  • Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Washington (D.C.)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006576214
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Publishers Weekly, 01/30/2006, Page 46
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