Knife Skills for Beginners

SHORTLISTED FOR THE VAL McDERMID DEBUT AWARD 2024 Richard Osman meets MasterChef in this gripping cosy murder mystery In this cookery school murder is on the menu If Agatha Christie were to go on Masterchef this novel would be the result Clare Pooley Delicious fun Tess GerritsenA recipe for disaster When chef Paul Delamare takes a job teaching at an exclusive residential cookery school in Belgravia the only thing he expects his students to murder is his taste buds But on the first night the unthinkable happens someone turns up dead The school rests on a knife edge The police are convinced Paul is the culprit After all he s good with a blade was first on the scene and everyone knows it doesn t take much to push a chef over the edge To prove his innocence he must find the killer Could it be one of his students Or the owner of the school a woman with secrets and a murky past It all boils down to murder If Paul can t solve the mystery fast as well as teach his students how to make a perfect hollandaise sauce he ll be next to get the chop Readers love Knife Skills for Beginners A deliciously dark slice of murder and mystery Chris Whitaker If Ruth Rendell had teamed up with Delia Smith they d have produced something like this J M