num_pages: 288
description: National bestselling author Lucy Burdette returns to Key West for another delectable dish of secrets intrigue and murder. Peace and quiet are hard to find in bustling Key West but Hayley Snow food critic for Key Zest magazine is taking the afternoon off for a tranquil lunch with a friend outside of town. When she comes home she discovers her husband Nathans dog Ziggy has disappeared. She follows his barking to find him furiously digging at a shallow grave with a mans body in it. Davis Jager a local birdwatcher identifies him as GG Garcia a rabble-rousing Key West local and developer. Garcia was famous for over-development on the fragile Keys womanizing and refusing to follow city rulesso its no wonder he had a few enemies. When Davis is attacked in the parking lot of a local restaurant after talking to Hayley and her dear friend the octogenarian Miss Gloria Hayley is slowly but surely drawn into the case. Hayleys mother Janet has been hired to cater GGs memorial service reception at the local womens club using recipes from their vintage Key West cookbookand Hayley and Miss Gloria sign on to work with her hoping to cook up some clues by observing the mourners. But the real clues come when Hayley begins to study the old cookbook as whispers of old secrets come to life dragging the past into the presentwith murderous results.
language: English
title: A Dish to Die For
publisher: Crooked Lane Books