num_pages: 343
description: Despite the bitter winter in South Lick Indiana business is still hot at Robbie Jordans restaurant. But when another murder rattles the small town can Robbie defrost the motives of a cold-blooded killer? Before she started hosting dinners for Indiana Universitys Sociology Department at Pans N Pancakes Robbie never imagined scholarly meetings could be so hostile. Its all due to Professor Charles Stilton who seems to thrive on heated exchanges with his peers and underlings and tensions flare one night after he disrespects Robbies friend graduate student Lou. So when Robbie and Lou go snowshoeing the next morning and find the contentious academic frozen under ice police suspect Lou might have killed him after their public tiff. To prove her friends innocence Robbie is absorbing local gossip about Professor Stiltons past and developing her own thesis on the homicideeven if that means stirring up terrible danger for herself along the way . . .
language: English
title: When the Grits Hit the Fan
publisher: Kensington