Delightful amateur sleuth police procedural who-done-it In Tacoma, Jewel Feynmann worries that her business Blue Plate Catering is failing; if she goes bankrupt she does not want to go back to the Jewish epicenter of metropolitan New York where her family awaits the return of the prodigal child...  more of Harriet Klausner’s 5-star review

Five Star First Edition Mystery Dying For A Blue Plate Special By Beth Kalikoff Published/Released: Five Star, May 2005 ISBN: 1-59414-297-1 $25.95

Kalikoff’s protagonist, Jewel Feynmann, is a New Jersey transplant to Tacoma, trying to make a fresh start with her business, Blue Plate Catering. When Jewel caters a dinner for a bunch of big-shot academics at Commencement Bay University in Tacoma, she’s certain the high-profile event at the prestigious liberal arts college will prove her meal ticket to a prosperous future. But when the university’s devious Dean Matthew Mulcahy ends up dead after sampling the first course, Jewel finds her business’ reputation on the line. And worse, she finds herself under the microscope of the police as a possible murder suspect. From there, the race is on to see who will find the murderer first – Jewel, or a beguiling brown-eyed Tacoma cop named Ben Hartsock.--DEBBIE CAFAZZO; The News Tribune, May 24th, 2005

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