Penny Pike (aka Penny Warner) writes the Food Festival Mystery series which starts in August 2014 and is set in California. It features restaurant reviewer Darcy Burnett who gets served a pink slip from the San Francisco Chronicle. Now she needs to come up with an alternative recipe for success quickly. Her feisty aunt Abby owns a tricked-out school bus, which she’s converted into a hip and happening food truck, and Darcy comes aboard as a part-timer while she develops a cookbook project based on recipes from food fests in the Bay Area.