Bon Bon Voyage

A Culinary Mystery

by Nancy Fairbanks

Prime Crime

Mystery

April 4, 2006

ISBN-13: 0425208591

Available in: Trade Size

Bon Bon Voyage
by Nancy Fairbanks

New in the popular culinary mystery series — with recipes included!

It's a perfect Mother's Day murder.

Even if she must share a cabin with her mother-in-law, food columnist Carolyn Blue admits it's a terrific Mother's Day present: passage on the Bountiful Feast, a gourmet cruise ship sailing to the Canary Islands. But when a female passenger disappears at a port stop and a corpse turns up on board, it's clear to Carolyn that the Bountiful Feast is sailing headlong into very dangerous waters. And if that's not enough, there's a terrifying shortage of double chocolate raspberry mousse.



Nancy Fairbanks' Bio

Nancy Fairbanks Herndon was born and brought up in the St. Louis area, took bachelors degrees in English and Journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, an event almost as exciting and astonishing as the news, delivered by phone early one morning when she had been fast asleep, that her first book had been accepted for publication. She followed those two degrees with a Masters from Rice University, plus some doctoral work in English at New York University.

She held low-paying and not terribly interesting jobs as a typist, sales clerk, proofreader, and advertising copywriter, and then almost as low-paying but much more interesting jobs as a lecturer in English at Rice, NYU, University of Mississippi, Florida Atlantic University and University of Texas at El Paso. In 1989 her first historical romance, Wanton Angel, was published by Dorchester Publishing Co. in NYC under the pseudonym Elizabeth Chadwick. Six more historical romances and seven short stories in various anthologies followed before she published her first mystery, Acid Bath, with Berkley Prime Crime under her married name, Nancy Herndon.

After six additional comic police procedurals in the Elena Jarvis series, she began the Carolyn Blue culinary mystery series, written under her maiden name, Nancy Fairbanks. Crime Brulee, Truffled Feathers, Death a l'Orange, Chocolate Quake, and The Perils of Paella are in print with Unholy Guacamole to follow in November, 2004. Nancy has a new contract for three more Carolyn Blue novels with Berkley and is at work on a mystery that takes place in Sorrento, Italy. Each of these mysteries is situated in a different city (in some of which English is a second language, if spoken at all, including her hometown, El Paso, Texas, site of Unholy Guacamole). The series includes cultural history and recipes from the relevant areas, not to mention bizarre characters and adventures. Who, after all, expects to find a real corpse as part of an art exhibit?

Nancy lives in El Paso, Texas.