Bones of the Amazon: A Novella
Meet Lulu Petite, a food critic for the local Palo Alto Sentinel who loves good cooking and makes a point of reviewing every restaurant in Silicon Valley wearing a disguise to ensure she is served the same food as any of her readers would be served. As the heroine of Bones of the Amazon, she is a woman in her early forties with a lot of moxie and all the curiosity of a feral tomcat.
One Sunday afternoon she is invited to a barbecue at the Woodside estate of a famous Silicon Valley venture capitalist whom she has recently profiled in the local paper and whose gourmet cooking and skills at entertaining are legendary. A doctor drowns in the pool at the party under mysterious circumstances, and the pool is shut down. But thanks to the impulses of our venture capitalist’s trophy wife, a new pool, of Olympic size, no less, is dug up in the weeks that follow. What is found in the course of the digging is the subject of the story, and has far-reaching consequences, especially when an archaeologist appears on the scene and is met by the elders of a California tribe of Native Americans who want the excavated pool-site filled back in. Lulu Petite does her own kind of digging to find answers, her nose for food and her hunger for the truth serving her well, indeed.
Soon Lulu Petite becomes more involved with David Hawkins, the venture capitalist who has given her the exclusive story about the discovery of bones in the bottom of the pool-site on his Woodside estate. An archaeologist from the University of California at Berkeley arrives to assess the value of the discovery. He’s got those rugged Harrison Ford good looks, Lulu observes in her reporter’s notebook, and she watches as the man camps out on the property with a team of students, and in no time becomes romantically involved with David’s trophy wife. The story heats up. Lulu has her work cut out for her in unraveling the mystery of the bones, as well as the true nature of the romance. She uses her imagination, along with her food sleuthing skills to figure things out. This part of the story takes you inside Lulu’s world and the world of the venture capitalist whose backyard has become the site of a major archaeological dig.
In the next part of the story we discover that David Hawkins, the venture capitalist, has indeed made a smart move in funding the technology developed by a local Valley startup; ironically, that technology has provided him with more than just a monetary return on his investment. Lulu Petite unravels the mystery, as a food critic with an eye for perfection, caught in circumstances that one might also think of as “bizarre” but nevertheless true to life.
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One Sunday afternoon she is invited to a barbecue at the Woodside estate of a famous Silicon Valley venture capitalist whom she has recently profiled in the local paper and whose gourmet cooking and skills at entertaining are legendary. A doctor drowns in the pool at the party under mysterious circumstances, and the pool is shut down. But thanks to the impulses of our venture capitalist’s trophy wife, a new pool, of Olympic size, no less, is dug up in the weeks that follow. What is found in the course of the digging is the subject of the story, and has far-reaching consequences, especially when an archaeologist appears on the scene and is met by the elders of a California tribe of Native Americans who want the excavated pool-site filled back in. Lulu Petite does her own kind of digging to find answers, her nose for food and her hunger for the truth serving her well, indeed.
Soon Lulu Petite becomes more involved with David Hawkins, the venture capitalist who has given her the exclusive story about the discovery of bones in the bottom of the pool-site on his Woodside estate. An archaeologist from the University of California at Berkeley arrives to assess the value of the discovery. He’s got those rugged Harrison Ford good looks, Lulu observes in her reporter’s notebook, and she watches as the man camps out on the property with a team of students, and in no time becomes romantically involved with David’s trophy wife. The story heats up. Lulu has her work cut out for her in unraveling the mystery of the bones, as well as the true nature of the romance. She uses her imagination, along with her food sleuthing skills to figure things out. This part of the story takes you inside Lulu’s world and the world of the venture capitalist whose backyard has become the site of a major archaeological dig.
In the next part of the story we discover that David Hawkins, the venture capitalist, has indeed made a smart move in funding the technology developed by a local Valley startup; ironically, that technology has provided him with more than just a monetary return on his investment. Lulu Petite unravels the mystery, as a food critic with an eye for perfection, caught in circumstances that one might also think of as “bizarre” but nevertheless true to life.
Bones of the Amazon: A Novella
Meet Lulu Petite, a food critic for the local Palo Alto Sentinel who loves good cooking and makes a point of reviewing every restaurant in Silicon Valley wearing a disguise to ensure she is served the same food as any of her readers would be served. As the heroine of Bones of the Amazon, she is a woman in her early forties with a lot of moxie and all the curiosity of a feral tomcat.
One Sunday afternoon she is invited to a barbecue at the Woodside estate of a famous Silicon Valley venture capitalist whom she has recently profiled in the local paper and whose gourmet cooking and skills at entertaining are legendary. A doctor drowns in the pool at the party under mysterious circumstances, and the pool is shut down. But thanks to the impulses of our venture capitalist’s trophy wife, a new pool, of Olympic size, no less, is dug up in the weeks that follow. What is found in the course of the digging is the subject of the story, and has far-reaching consequences, especially when an archaeologist appears on the scene and is met by the elders of a California tribe of Native Americans who want the excavated pool-site filled back in. Lulu Petite does her own kind of digging to find answers, her nose for food and her hunger for the truth serving her well, indeed.
Soon Lulu Petite becomes more involved with David Hawkins, the venture capitalist who has given her the exclusive story about the discovery of bones in the bottom of the pool-site on his Woodside estate. An archaeologist from the University of California at Berkeley arrives to assess the value of the discovery. He’s got those rugged Harrison Ford good looks, Lulu observes in her reporter’s notebook, and she watches as the man camps out on the property with a team of students, and in no time becomes romantically involved with David’s trophy wife. The story heats up. Lulu has her work cut out for her in unraveling the mystery of the bones, as well as the true nature of the romance. She uses her imagination, along with her food sleuthing skills to figure things out. This part of the story takes you inside Lulu’s world and the world of the venture capitalist whose backyard has become the site of a major archaeological dig.
In the next part of the story we discover that David Hawkins, the venture capitalist, has indeed made a smart move in funding the technology developed by a local Valley startup; ironically, that technology has provided him with more than just a monetary return on his investment. Lulu Petite unravels the mystery, as a food critic with an eye for perfection, caught in circumstances that one might also think of as “bizarre” but nevertheless true to life.
One Sunday afternoon she is invited to a barbecue at the Woodside estate of a famous Silicon Valley venture capitalist whom she has recently profiled in the local paper and whose gourmet cooking and skills at entertaining are legendary. A doctor drowns in the pool at the party under mysterious circumstances, and the pool is shut down. But thanks to the impulses of our venture capitalist’s trophy wife, a new pool, of Olympic size, no less, is dug up in the weeks that follow. What is found in the course of the digging is the subject of the story, and has far-reaching consequences, especially when an archaeologist appears on the scene and is met by the elders of a California tribe of Native Americans who want the excavated pool-site filled back in. Lulu Petite does her own kind of digging to find answers, her nose for food and her hunger for the truth serving her well, indeed.
Soon Lulu Petite becomes more involved with David Hawkins, the venture capitalist who has given her the exclusive story about the discovery of bones in the bottom of the pool-site on his Woodside estate. An archaeologist from the University of California at Berkeley arrives to assess the value of the discovery. He’s got those rugged Harrison Ford good looks, Lulu observes in her reporter’s notebook, and she watches as the man camps out on the property with a team of students, and in no time becomes romantically involved with David’s trophy wife. The story heats up. Lulu has her work cut out for her in unraveling the mystery of the bones, as well as the true nature of the romance. She uses her imagination, along with her food sleuthing skills to figure things out. This part of the story takes you inside Lulu’s world and the world of the venture capitalist whose backyard has become the site of a major archaeological dig.
In the next part of the story we discover that David Hawkins, the venture capitalist, has indeed made a smart move in funding the technology developed by a local Valley startup; ironically, that technology has provided him with more than just a monetary return on his investment. Lulu Petite unravels the mystery, as a food critic with an eye for perfection, caught in circumstances that one might also think of as “bizarre” but nevertheless true to life.
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| BN ID: | 2940015673753 |
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| Publisher: | Black Tea Press |
| Publication date: | 09/14/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 151 KB |
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