Books, Cooks, and Crooks
Lucy Arlington

A Novel Idea Mystery #3
Berkley Prime Crime
February 2014
On Sale: February 4, 2014
Featuring: Lila Wilkins
304 pages
ISBN: 0425252248
EAN: 9780425252246
Kindle: B00DYX9M8Q
Paperback / e-Book
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Mystery Culinary | Mystery Cozy

Taste of the Town may fail if Lila can't find a killer

Literary Agent Works to Solve Murder of Celebrity Chef

The national bestselling Novel Idea Mysteries are back, as Lila Wilkins—literary agent and sleuth—is setting up a delicious cookbook fair. But the tension in the kitchen is about to boil over…

Inspiration Valley, North Carolina, is bubbling with excitement for the Taste of the Town festival, and Lila is right in the middle of it all. Along with her coworkers at the Novel Idea Literary Agency, Lila is organizing a grand celebrity chef event, featuring food television's biggest stars, complete with cooking demonstrations, cookbook giveaways, and even a culinary writing contest.

But just as the celebration is about to start, the demo kitchen blows up, taking one of the star cooks with it. With all the explosive egos of the cook’s colleagues, it’s hard to find someone who didn’t have a motive to eliminate the competition. Now Lila will have to scramble to figure out which of her clients is a killer—before someone else gets burned.