The Alcrest Gastropub Cookbook: The Alcrest Mysteries

By Lorne Oliver

The Alcrest Gastropub is restaurant for artists, singers, game lovers, writers and serial killers alike.  No matter what is cooking – NY striploin steaks, chicken alfredo, burgers, headless bodies – the food is always tasty and plated with style.

Whether you have read The Alcrest Mystery novels you will enjoy this look behind the scenes at The Alcrest Gastropub.  Find out what goes into making the novels and hidden secrets while enjoying the collection of recipes straight from the restaurant.

Author and chef, Lorne Oliver invites you into both of his worlds in this companion to The Alcrest Mysteries.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lorne Oliver
• Release date: Jan 31, 2016
• ISBN: 9780994030948

Book preview

Some Housekeeping

Let’s get through some business first.  Everyone at the restaurant wanted to put their 2 cents into this fun little book.  Yes, I’m talking about the characters in my head.  Don’t judge me.  It’s a collection of conversations between characters and interviews and tidbits of information that you most likely won’t find anywhere else.  Writers know far more of what happens to characters than is ever put to page. 

Instead of writing names all the time we went with initials.

CA = Chrys Alcrest

SA = Spencer Alcrest

J = Jessie – Front of House Manager

H = Hanni - Server

W = Wylie – Bartender/Server

G = Gordie – Sous Chef

R = Ranger – Prep Cook

M = Mallory – Garde Manger Chef

Mr.O = that writer guy

I can’t control everyone, so you’re warned now that some language may not be appropriate.  This is a book by restaurant people about life in a restaurant.  It’s real. – Mr.O

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Cover Photos

As you may or may not know, a lot of the characters are based on real people.  The cover has a few, so I’d like to give thanks to those who are on there and some of the photographers.

Hanni Vale – Photo by KVA Photography {The Menu cover shoot}

Pencil drawings of Chrys and Spencer – Jackie VanderZwaag

Trinky van Rozen – photo by Wendy L Kreger-Hildebrand {Inspiration for Maeve Campbell}

Painting by EJ Anarchy {The Pass cover}

Diane Altinbilek – photo by Leah Morningstar {Inspiration for Dee}

Hanni Vale – photo by KVA Photography {The Menu cover shoot}

Hanni Vale {Inspiration for Hanni}

Nicole Dunphy {Inspiration for Hanni}

Jason Nowe {Inspiration for Gordie}

Dominique Gareau {The face of Jessie}

Elizabeth Frances {Inspiration for Chrys}

The Alcrest Mysteries

So far and soon to be

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The Cistern

A woman and a body are found in the cistern of an abandoned home

2014

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The Menu

{6 months later}

The killing of a transgender woman leads to something much worse

2015

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The Pass

{2 months later}

A friend’s death is suspicious enough for the Alcrest’s to head into the mountains

2016

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Wind-Chimes

{9 months later}

Body parts hang like silent wind chimes

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On the Line

The mother-fucking Chrys Alcrest story.

Bitches! - CA

The Alcrest Gastropub Cookbook

Copyright © 2017 by Lorne Oliver

This is a work of fiction.  Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.  Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the author.

ISBN:  978-0-9940309-4-8

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CA – That’s as far as the information about all of us.  The recipes you