Fashion designer Roberta Riddle is a legend in the business, but she's having a hard time keeping up. Her costs are rising, hotshot new designers are threatening her status and reputation, and she fears that someone within her organization is trying to sabotage her. But the pot boils over when late one night she discovers her longtime fitting model with her head crushed beneath a jade statue. Roberta had many enemies and wonders whether she may have been the intended victim - but quickly enough finds herself a prime suspect in the murder. Roberta does the only thing she can think of - she calls in her old friend, devoted sleuth Simona Griffo.
As Simona investigates Roberta's business and the murder at hand, she finds that there is far more to her friend's life than she once thought. Roberta hints that behind the model's death may lurk a scandal too painful to expose - and Simona must decide whether revealing it is the only way to prove Roberta's innocence. Another surprise walks into Simona's life in the form of a bulky, overeager, Russian sleuth sidekick, Dmitri, whose persistence is at first endearing, then infuriating, but ultimately appreciated when this fashion mystery turns dangerous for Simona.
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Review:
Simona Griffo--the Italian-born, New York-based food and murder expert--is worried about losing her soft creative job at her ad agency, of being pushed upstairs with "the Living Dead, account executives who get to work at 8 a.m. in ironed suits and crisp hair, trailing antiseptic deodorant smells. I thrive in the late-starting, garlic-breath, T-shirt-and-jeans department." She certainly does. Simona's latest misadventure takes her cooking and crime-solving skills into the world of high fashion, where one of Griffo's clients is in danger of losing her company and her freedom. As usual, there's a great-looking recipe at the end of the book--this time for something called Shmatta Pasta, which I'm making tonight. Past Griffo gourmandizings in paperback include The Trouble With Going Home, The Trouble with Thin Ice, and The Trouble With a Hot Summer.
From the Publisher:
Camilla T. Crespi delivers her best mystery yet, in which Italian sleuth and gourmet cook Simona Griffo must solve a murder in the heart of New York City's fashion world.
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- PublisherHarpercollins
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 006017661X
- ISBN 13 9780060176617
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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