num_pages: 304
description: First in a delicious new mystery series filled with casseroles confidences and killers...Lilah Drakes Covered Dish business discreetly provides the residents of Pine Haven Illinois with delicious fresh-cooked meals they can claim they cooked themselves. But when one of her clandestine concoctions is used to poison a local woman Lilah finds herself in a pot-load of troubleAfter dreaming for years of owning her own catering company Lilah has made a start into the food world through her Covered Dish business covertly cooking for her neighbors who dont have the time or skill to do so themselves and allowing them to claim her culinary creations as their own. While her clientele is strong their continued happiness depends on no one finding out whos really behind the apron.So when someone drops dead at a church Bingo night moments after eating chili that Lilah made for a client the anonymous chef finds herself getting stirred into a cauldron of secrets lies and murderand going toe to toe with a very determined and very attractive detective. To keep her clients coming back and her business under wraps Lilah will have to chop down the list of suspects fast because this spicy killer has acquired a taste for homicide
language: English
title: The Big Chili
publisher: Berkley