![]() ![]() Then there's the fallen food star who gave John his start and figures he's in a prime position to take over the dead man's television show. ![]() Paolo gives Charlie some cash for his silence and an enthusiasm-free invitation to look him up should Charlie ever find himself in New York. Paolo is standing before the corpse of his best friend and doing something innocent that nevertheless, he recognizes, looks compromising. Hotel employee Charlie McCree finds John's body, but not just John's body: he also happens upon chef Paolo Cabrini, owner of a prestige-dripping New York restaurant. It's populated with a clutch of scheming individuals whose lives are potentially altered for the better by John's death. Boyd, a pseudonym of journalists Kevin Alexander and Joe Keohane and editor Alessandra Lusardi-has the feel of a mystery. ![]() Yet this frequently brilliant and, despite its bleak central plot point, hilarious novel-the maiden voyage of S.E. His hanging death isn't suspicious, nor is it a murder dressed up to look like a suicide. As The Lemon begins, John Doe, world-traveling chef and food showman, dies by his own hand in his Belfast hotel room. ![]()
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