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    Beat Until Stiff

    By Claire M Johnson

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    Cranky Mary Ryan has sunk a lot of time and talent into the American Fare, San Francisco's hottest spot, while grieving over her broken marriage. At work very early, she steps on a laundry bag stuffed with the dead body of one of her employees. The investigation soon exposes all the dirty secrets that the food business would like to keep secret: the philandering chefs, the silly whims of the dining public, the hiring of illegal aliens, and the subsistence-living pay scale. Events begin to spiral that in time take out the restaurant's celebrity chef and force Mary to use her unique skills to uncover a poisonous scheme. Beat Until Stiff is the first book in the Mary Ryan series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateOct 31, 2011
    ISBN9781615951031
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      I received this book from one of my great book sistah's and loved every minute of it! Unfortunately, Claire M Johnson doesn't seemed to have written any others and I would have loved to have read more.