Cooking the Books: 6 (The Corinna Chapman) - Softcover

"Sassy, sexy characters; snappy dialog...Put on the coffee pot, whip up a batch of muffins (yes, two recipes are included), and enjoy this thoroughly original tale."--Library Journal starred review of Earthly Delights

"A baker's holiday plans are thwarted by gentle blackmail and a series of mysteries....To the usual delightfully quirky characters, lovingly detailed descriptions of food and surprising mystery, Greenwood adds several appended medieval recipes."--Kirkus Reviews

Praise for the first Corinna Chapman mystery... "Sassy, sexy characters; snappy dialog...[a] thoroughly original tale." -Library Journal starred review of Earthly Delights Corinna Chapman is trying to do nothing at all on her holiday. Daniel is only intermittently at her side; Jason, her baking offsider, has gone off to learn how to surf; and Kylie and Goss are auditioning for a soapie. But Corinna is bored. So she accepts an offer to bake for the set of the show in which Kylie and Goss have parts. Soon complications that could only happen to Corinna ensue, involving cakes, sabotage, nursery rhymes, and a tiger named Tabitha.Meanwhile, a young woman is being bullied by her corporate employers-who spend a lot of time cooking the books.... Kerry Greenwood has written more than twenty novels, a number of plays, and is the creator of the Phryne Fisher series. In 2003 she won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Australia. www.earthlydelights.net.au