Killer Chef: BookShots

by James Patterson

Paperback, 2016

Rating

(39 ratings; 3.3)

Series

BookShots

Chef (2)

Genres

Mystery

All Topics

Fiction

Publication

BookShots (2016), 144 pages

Description

Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. Eat, drink, and be murdered.Someone is poisoning diners in New Orleans' best restaurants. Now it's up to chef and homicide cop Caleb Rooney to catch a killer set on revenge�??a dish best served cold.BookShotsLIGHTNING-FAST STORIES BY JAMES PATTERSON Novels you can devour in a few hoursImpossible to stop readingAll original content from James Patters

User reviews

LibraryThing member jfe16

Someone is poisoning restaurant diners in New Orleans. Caleb Rooney, who also runs a food truck with his ex-wife Marlene, is the lead detective on the case. How many people will succumb to the poisoned fare before he finds the person responsible for the deadly food?

Since this is a BookShots

offering, the story is light on character development and heavy on action. Still, for an afternoon read, it is entertaining and there’s the unexpected twist to surprise readers as the story draws to its conclusion.

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LibraryThing member bjkelley

Usually if a book is badly written, I just dismiss it and go on to read something else. I've always heard the expression "like watching a train wreck" and this book certainly fits into that description. Not only is the writing terrible, but facts about New Orleans are for the most part just wrong.

For example, in the second chapter, the author thinks Johnny's Po Boys is open at 10 pm (the close at 4 pm) and that maracas (WTF) are an instrument in Cajun bands. I see that the author Jeffrey J Keyes has a masters degree in fine art, its pretty obvious that that degree is not in writing.

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LibraryThing member BingeReader87

Picked this up at the library and finished it in about a day. 125 pages and tons of thrills and suspense. Loved it.

LibraryThing member gail616

Not bad but not up to the usual Patterson standards. This is the first book shot I’ve tried. I will try another one down the road.

LibraryThing member TBones

This was a page turner/ hard to put down title. There were a few moments in this book that were making me hungry but I guess that's what you get with the word "chef" in the title.

LibraryThing member Sheila1957

Diners are dying at upscale restaurants and Caleb, a chef and a cop, is called in to solve the murders. I enjoyed this book. I did not figure out who the killer was. I liked Caleb and Marlene, his ex-wife and current business partner. I liked their bantering. I could tell they were comfortable

together. Just a short book to read in a couple hours.

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LibraryThing member over.the.edge

Killer Chef
by James Patterson & Jeffrey j. Keyes
2016
Hachette/Book Shots
3.8/5 0

Two double homicides in New Orleans fine dining restaurant, Patsy's, has homicide detective Caleb Rooney hunting a killer hellbent on revenge.
Short, quick and interesting.
#teamslaughter #scarathon #theme @Clwojick
10 pts

+ 1 participating

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LibraryThing member thebookbabe

Nicely paced prequel to the new "Caleb Rooney" series, Set in one of my most favorite places: NOLA.

LibraryThing member rmarcin

Another quick Bookshots in the James Patterson series. This one is about a murder spree in New Orleans where diners at restaurants are being murdered. Killer chef runs a food truck and is also a police detective. He needs to solve this crime before more murders happen. I enjoyed this short book,

but it seems like it wrapped up way too quickly in the end.

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