The Perils of Paella
Berkley Pub Group
Mystery
January 6, 2004
ISBN-13: 042519390X
Available in: Paperback
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The Perils of Paella
by Nancy Fairbanks
Food writer Carolyn gets to challenge her taste-testing skills once again-this time, in Barcelona. Her first feast is for the eyes-at a modern art museum where her friend Roberta is the resident scholar. There, she catches a performance art piece about death, planted a little too firmly in reality. One of the actors is not acting-she's dead...as well as a dead-ringer for Roberta. And now, Carolyn is in the middle of a new investigation into a very unsavory crime.
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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.