It's Fantasy Fest at Key West, and food critic Hayley Snow is ready to celebrate. But a killer seems intent on crashing the party in this mystery from the national bestselling author of Death with All the Trimmings. Every year, Key West's week long Mardi Gras-style festival has tourists and locals alike lining up for costumed revelry and delicious eats. Key Zest magazine has assigned Hayley to write a piece on the fest's grab-and-go food, so she's planning on hitting up the mobile eateries while checking out the party preparations. Hayley's office mate, Danielle, recently elected Queen of Fantasy Fest, is also buzzing between festivities and fundraisers. But when a former royal rival gets taken out, Hayley needs to put down her party hat and her pen and figure out who served up a side of murder--before Danielle gets crowned a killer...
At least six times I checked my phone to reread the exchange of text messages I'd had with Bransford last night. Him: I made a reservation at Michaels. Me: Been dying to try Michaels. Sounds great. Him: Steak from Chicago and Hayley ...
This is the perfect book to chew on while eating lunch in the break room or before cooking that perfect dinner.” --Jeff Ayers, RT Book Reviews, four-star review "A terrifically entertaining and deftly written mystery.
Megan was right about not approaching Ray too soon, so that left one weak link. Joel Liu. “Here's the plan,” I told Megan. “I'm going to confront Joel about him talking with Jackie Shen.” “What do you mean? How does anything involve ...
As the hours to Turkey Day tick away, the pressure cooker is on for Hayley to serve up the culprit on a silver platter in A Deadly Feast, national bestselling author Lucy Burdette’s taste-tempting ninth Key West Food Critic mystery.
First I find out that my boyfriend is cheating on me.
As the new food critic for Key Zest magazine, Hayley Snow went from being a culinary groupie to one of Florida’s cutting-edge tastemakers.
Bee was manning a second dessert station, attempting to prevent guests from stripping it bare of pie and key lime macaroons before the party had even officially started. My mother-in-law steamed up to her. “Are you absolutely certain ...
One of Jimmy Buffett's best. And appropriate for the day and the setting. I settled at a table on the patio underneath a trellis twined with an enormous bougainvillea studded with pink blossoms. A small flock of brown birds twittered on ...
She held up a hardcover copy of The Louie's Backyard Cookbook. “I look for five things. ... Cookbooks can be less perfect, since people expect them to have been used, but an unread book in pristine condition is most valuable.
A murderer's out to spoil Hayley's honeymoon in national bestselling author Lucy Burdette's eleventh Key West Food Critic Mystery.