Beat until stiff a mary ryan mystery [WorldCat Entities]

"Mary Ryan, a pastry chef at a trendy San Francisco restaurant, becomes entangled in murder, secrets, and intrigue when she discovers the deceased body of an employee in a laundry bag."@en
"Mary Ryan, a pastry chef at a trendy San Francisco restaurant, becomes entangled in murder, secrets, and intrigue when she discovers the deceased body of an employee in a laundry bag."
"Experienced pastry chef Johnson whips up an insider's look at San Francisco's cut-throat restaurant trade. Cranky Mary Ryan has sunk a lot of time and talent into the in-vogue American Fare, the town's hottest spot, while grieving over her broken marriage. At work very early one morning, 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 ..."@en

Beat until stiff a mary ryan mystery