num_pages: 293
description:  Sweet Pepper Tennessee has the worlds hottest and sweetest peppersas well as a ghost that cooks and a fire chief who fights crime SPARK OF INTEREST Stella Griffin should be bubbling over with joy now that shes the full-time fire chief of Sweet Pepper except trouble is brewing on her doorstep. An angry resident has purchased her cabin and -- with a bulldozer in tow -- is ready to tear it down. But as Stella worries over the fate of her home and Eric her ghostly roommate theres soon an even greater cause for alarm. A suspicious house fire in the pricey Sunset Beach community at Sweet Pepper Lake claims the life of ex-state representative Barney Falk. The nature of the death has Stella feeling out of her depth so she teams up with the states arson investigator. Moving full steam ahead with the case they must smoke out a killer before the firebug strikes againINCLUDES RECIPES! 
language: English
title: In Hot Water
publisher: Berkley Prime Crime