ButterThe cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story There are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention House convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, whom she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nations imagination,

of The unrest Cure and the Open Window all reveal that unique blend of Wodehousian social comedy with wicked cruelty

was also nominated for a National Book Award

To concede would curdle her Plantagenet blood

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Baxter looks beyond the nostalgia to the secret history of Montparnasse

and utterly readable book reveals the knowledgeable answers to the questions every woman wonders about:

Raised in the country’s first “first family

it is full of the author’s genuine love

and Ellie and Seth are faced with impossible questions about who they can trust and who they can’t—including each other

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She answers questions about her difficult childhood

Leo Stone was convicted of murdering two women and sentenced to life in prison