A house with secrets, an old betrayal, and a murder that won’t stay buried…
For gourmet cook Angie Amalfi, life should be heating up—in the kitchen and in her soon-to-be-renovated dream home with Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith. But when a well-heeled socialite’s husband drops dead at a glitzy San Francisco fundraiser, the elegant evening curdles into chaos.
As Angie gets drawn into the mystery—complete with cryptic family secrets, a possibly haunted mansion, and a suspiciously loyal terrier—Paavo launches a full-scale investigation of his own. His leads are cold, the suspects slippery, and the clues half-baked. But with poison now linking this case to an earlier, “solved” high-society death, it’s clear someone’s got murder down to a recipe.
While Angie stirs up answers from the kitchen to the crime scene, Paavo’s chasing shadows that could destroy his case—or get Angie killed. Can they uncover the truth before someone serves up another deadly course?
Murder’s on the menu—and this time, it’s personal.