Unjust Desserts

"The chicken curry was on the top shelf. Queenie eyed it with pleasure. Food was one of her solaces. Food and her garden. Her old-fashioned 'rosa rugosa albas' and the Chaucer and Chianti varieties plus her cottage garden delphiniums, lupins, foxgloves, pansies, primulas, were so famous the Findrose Rose Society regarded her as their most distinguished member.

Without bothering to reheat the curry she scooped it up with her fingers. Delicious, if heavy on the chilli. She poured the sauce into her mouth. Definitely too much chilli. When the carton was licked clean she carefully scrubbed it, then took it into the potting shed and slid it under a pile of similar containers.

The cramps and vomiting didn't begin until fifteen minutes later."

ISBN: 1 920699 62 7
Review: Sally Odgers

Not Just Desserts, the deli/catering business owned by Olivia Beauman, is under threat. Though many people hate Harry Oldrich, it is his wife Queenie and his mistress Bettina who die when old-fashioned pesticide is placed in meals Olivia has prepared.

Grevillia may seem an idyllic village on the south coast of Australia. But when Detective Richard Brumby is brought in to solve these murders, he discovers that no place is safe from secret and intrigue.