did not care for.

a culinary mystery with recipes set in Barcelona, Spain.

I got some good recipes from this book in addition to enjoying solving the mystery.

One of a mystery series featuring "forty-something homemaker" Carolyn Blue who has embarked on a new career as a food writer. Includes food history and recipes.

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.

A confident and witty detective with a taste for good food and an eye for murderous detail.

5th book in the Carolyn Blue culinary mystery series-set in Barcelona

Another hit by Nancy Fairbanks. Carolyn Blue is at it again, this time she's in Europe, ah the culinary delights of Barcelona. Jason doesn't figure too much in this installment, wondering if things are taking a turn in another direction? 5th in the series.

This is a great series and I love getting the view from both the husband and the wife. The exotic desinations are cool and the subplots with the kids are interesting too.

This is a cute, quick little read. It only took me a few days to read it, and that was to take my mind off of my impending particle physics final (that's over now too...thankfully). There are a lot of interesting, sometimes just plain bizarre characters in this short novel. Thrown into the mix is some brief history of Barcelona and the Catalan region, and some "authentic" recipes to boot. I'm a bit distressed at the negative view all the Catalan males seem to hold about American women, and I wonder if that is a view held by most in the region or if it is limited to this book. The book ended rather abruptly, but it's hard to end a mystery very well. Once the crime is solved, as it inevitably is, what else is there to say really? At any rate, it's a quick read and worth reading once, but probably not more than that.

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