Former hometowner Elaine Viets will chat and sign her just-out book at Pudd’nhead Books, 8157 Big Bend Rd.Webster Groves, at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 12, 2011.
The book, “Death on a Platter: Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper,” a Mass Market paperback, has a local twist.
According to the blurb:
Josie Marcus plans to savor sampling the local St. Louis cuisine for a City Eats food tour. But her appetite is ruined at Tillie’s Off the Hill Italian Restaurant when another customer is poisoned. Was the victim the real target-or is someone trying to ruin Tillie’s reputation? It’s up to Josie to find a killer who has no reservations about preparing a dish to die for…