Reviewer: Mary Lignor
Title: One Foot in the Gravy - 2nd in the Deadly Deli Mystery series
Author: Delia Rosen
Publisher: Kensington
ISBN-13: 978-0-7582-4171-9
Release Date: October 2011
Genre/Sub-genre: Cozy Mystery
Year/Setting: Present/Nashville, TN
Overall Rating: 4.5
Sexual Content Rating: None
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: None
Violent Content Rating: Moderate
Delia's Website/Blog: None found
Dear Readers,
After a divorce, Gwen Silver, inherits her late Uncle's kosher deli called Murray's Pastrami Swami. She packed up, took her maiden name (Katz) and subsequently, became known as Nashville Katz, and as Uncle Murray called his deli, takes over the first and only Jewish deli in Music City, USA. The native New Yorker somehow adjusts to living in Nashville and is welcomed by her employees except for Thomasina Jackson, the boss of bosses.
Gwen takes on a catering job for wealthy socialite Lolo Baker. This is the first catering job the deli has ever attempted and Thomasina is not eager to try something new. The party is going to be a mystery-themed dinner. When Lolo rings the crystal bell to start the dinner, horrible noises erupt from the room above frightening the deli employees and the attendees. The noises are quickly accompanied by a crash through the ceiling. Hoppy Hopewell has fallen dead with, literally, one foot in Gwen's gravy.
Nashville Police Department Detective Grant Daniels leads the homicide investigation that turns stranger when Lolo's housekeeper Lizzie Renoir is also murdered. Unable to mind her deli, Gwen, who was a former forensic accountant with the NYPD tries to do some investigating on her own to see if there are any ties between the victims.
This book is the second in this series by Delia Rosen. It's a really humorous cozy as the former New Yorker starts her own investigation much to the chagrin of Detective Daniels who is afraid that the next victim will be Gwen. The supporting cast is a wonderful group of individuals who bring this story to life. Readers will thoroughly enjoy this Deli tale with a few Deli recipes in the back of the book.
Mary
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