num_pages: 272
description: Poppy Markham practically grew up at the family restaurant in Austin Texas and until recently worked as a sous chef under her surly stepsister Ursula. Poppy's not sure if her dad will ever forgive her for leaving the family business to become a public health inspector-the most reviled figure in the restaurant industry-but when he asks her back into the kitchen to help out during the restaurant's grand re-opening she can't refuse. Chaos ensues when the guest of honor Michelin-rated chef variste Bontecou is found stabbed to death with Ursula's knife. Sacrebleu!Sorting through everyone who had it in for the hot-headed philandering French chef is worse than deboning a Coho salmon. Could it be the bad-boy sous chef eyeing his chance at the top or the conniving waitress rumored to be variste's paramour du jour? The closer Poppy gets to solving the mystery the hotter things get. And as everyone knows: if you can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen.
language: English
title: If You Can't Stand the Heat
publisher: Midnight Ink