Cooks' Tour

Ben Ezzell's new book, Cooks' Tour, A Hidden Treasures Culinary Adventure, is not his first book.  In fact, the is a fairly prolific author. But his other books cannot be read by the likes of me because they concern (to me, anyway) very arcane aspects of computer programming. Cooks' Tour, however, reflects the author's time spent in Thailand and his love of the Thai people and their food.

Set in Chaing Mai, Thailand, the mystery brings together a diverse group of people who have signed up for a chef's culinary tour of Thailand.  The group has barely assembled when stolen luggage, hallucinogenic mushrooms, a bungled burglary and other strange events begin to occur.  Interspersed among the mayhem, however, are such mouth-watering meals that you will be faced with a dilemma: do you continue reading to find out who dun'it and why or do you proceed as quickly as possible to the nearest Thai restaurant?  (The answer: take the book to the nearest Thai restaurant and finish reading it while you eat a curried Thai dish.)

from Book Notes, by Frances Werner, The Russian River Times