This is Larson's second appearance here.
I have written here before about didactic mysteries, tales which teach you about some subject as you enjoy the story. This is a good example.
The narrator is the police chief of a small town in New York. He has joined a group called the Slim Janes, not for professional reasons, but to watch his diet. Oops! Don't call it a diet. They call it a Way of Eating, or WOE.
And he is learning so much about WOEs that his head is swimming, but then he is called away on a case. Becca, one of the groups leaders, is hospitalized after a bad reaction to food. Allergy? Poison? Shoddy vegan supplements?
To get to the bottom of it all the chief has to learn a lot about how different diets work. It's clever, informative, and best of all, the solution really does depend on what he learns.
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