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Sep 01, 2015
Neil Flambé is a 14-year-old chef of wonders. He can cook anything, and he brags that he can cook it better than anyone else. He’s cocky, but he may also be right. His customers pay a lot of money and wait months for reservations at his tiny restaurant in Vancouver. What many of Neil’s patrons don’t know is that he’s also a detective. It all started when he used his knowledge of cooking and his incredible sense of smell to accuse his mother’s client of murder. Ever since, Police Inspector Sean Nakamura has relied on Neil to help him crack case after case. Now, the city’s crime scene has taken a turn for the personal. Some of the best chefs in town are turning up dead. The cops are stumped; the only real clues are a mysterious smell and some equally mysterious notes that seem to have something to do with Marco Polo. As more chefs fall prey to the killer, Neil finds himself working not only to solve the murders, but to eliminate himself as the prime suspect! Chefs are being poisoned: along with the scent of masala chai, small papers with text are left with the bodies. Solving the mystery involves a knowledge of history as well as the culinary arts: history that Neil has omitted to study in his classes at school. Can he Solve it? Find out when you take this book out. This book will blow your mind. Why? Because the author’s plot holds until the end!