Farmer is a fun and delicious mystery writer. The violence is not 3d graphic and the sex is not x-rated. I especially enjoyed learning about the filming of a television program and the hand dying of wool. Madeline cohorts, Holly and Wes, have very small cameos in this book. BUT--Holly has an earth-shattering encounter; of course, you must read the book to discover the secret. Madeline prepares food that I have never eaten, nor will ever eat; but I do not live in Los Angeles. (

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delphimo | Dec 22, 2012 |

Hollywood caterier Mad Bean takes a part time job as a writer for a game show....Murder follows (

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RonnieMenmer | Jan 17, 2012 |

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Madeline Bean Culinary Mystery (5)

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Madeline Bean

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0380817195, Mass Market Paperback)

Mad Bean Events is on the job catering the glorious Hollywood season wrap party for the surprise hit gourmet game show, But when one of the key game show writers seems to have disappeared, Maddie′s producer friend needs a replacement -- fast. And who better to write culinary questions than Maddie? When Maddie joins the oddball crew of game show pros, she finds she has a talent for writing clues as well as following them -- since the office she takes over offers tantalizing hints as to the whereabouts of the missing writer. And Maddie aims to hit the jackpot by answering: Who wrote off the writer?

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"It's another great gig for Mad Bean Events: catering the gala season wrap party for the runaway TV hit, gourmet cook-off game show Food Freak. But Madeline's going to have to keep her delicious Cajun treats simmering on the stove a while longer now that the studio has decided to film one more episode . . . and the head writer has mysteriously disappeared. The good news is the show's producer must replace the missing writer and offers Maddie the temporary position, since there's no one in L.A. who's more up on her food facts than La Bean."."Joining the show's oddball staff, Maddie must quickly meet the demands of this intense, new, behind-the-scenes world of television, and is soon busily creating clever culinary puzzles for the show's contestants. But in her new office she immediately uncovers tantalizing hints as to the missing writer's whereabouts. And solving puzzles in real life is a Maddie Bean talent second only to her superb knowledge of edibles. Certain clues she finds scattered around the workspace - including a troubling Post-it note that hints of homicide - have her wondering whether the AWOL writer truly flew the coop . . . or was written off for good!"."A Hollywood writer's life had sounded sweet, but Maddie finds the whirlwind of twisted off-camera affairs of the Hollywood demi-mighty - where ego-wrestling is an extreme sport - can leave a bitter aftertaste, especially when a rare and priceless packet of Kool-Aid, an amorous celebrity chef, and a bubbling Cajun gumbo from hell leads her indirectly to a murder. Suddenly, Madeline Bean's having-her-cake-and-eating-it-too temp job becomes a recipe for disaster, setting the cagey caterer in the lethal sights of a killer."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)