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[Audio CD Library Edition in vinyl case][Read by Christine Williams]San Francisco pastry chef Mary Ryan is back teaching at her old alma mater, trying to straddle the worlds of both her original mentors and her contemporaries. To make matters worse, Homicide Detective O'Connor has enrolled as a student, claiming to be on disability from the San Francisco Police Department. In the middle of this turf war, Mary is confronted by the dean Robert Benson, who tells Mary she must either force Coolie Martin to leave the school or lose her job. Why would Coolie's father, a member of the Board of Directors, allow this? But when faculty and staff begin dying, Mary thinks that Coolie's forced exit might only be part of a larger, more sinister plot. Acting on a hint from O'Connor, Mary contacts the only person who can help her: her nemesis, Thom Woods. Will Mary and Thom uncover the truth before another chef bakes his last pie?
It's hard to believe, but I liked this second Mary Ryan book even better than the first. If Beat Until Stiff was about Ryan waking up after a long emotional deep-freeze, then Roux Morgue takes the transformation of Ryan even further.I especially loved the clever, pithy insights into the culinary world--the back-biting, the popular trends, the Old School vs the New School way of making food an experience, not just something to nourish your body. Even better, the author's love for food, and in particular the creation of pastries and the chemistry of food creation, really shines through. There's a moment where Ryan, speaking to the Dean about a student, says, "She gets it." We do, too.If Ryan was the Walking Dead in the first book, she's fully awake for this one. Which makes it perfectly plausible to me that she takes it upon herself to solve the deaths of the people around her before it destroys everything she loves.
