Knife Skills for Beginners

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE VAL McDERMID DEBUT AWARD 2024** Richard Osman meets MasterChef in this gripping cosy murder mystery. In this cookery school, murder is on the menu... ''If Agatha Christie were to go on Masterchef, this novel would be the result.'' Clare Pooley ''Delicious fun!'' Tess Gerritsen A recipe for disaster. When chef Paul Delamare takes a job teaching at an exclusive residential cookery school in Belgravia, the only thing he expects his students to murder is his taste buds. But on the first night, the unthinkable happens: someone turns up dead... The school rests on a knife-edge. The police are convinced Paul is the culprit. After all, he’s good with a blade, was first on the scene – and everyone knows it doesn’t take much to push a chef over the edge. To prove his innocence, he must find the killer. Could it be one of his students? Or the owner of the school – a woman with