Death of a kitchen diva
Subtitle: a Hayley Powell food & cocktails mystery
By: Lee Hollis
Contributors: Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: A Hayley Powell food and cocktails mystery -- [1st]; Kensington Mystery
Publisher: Kensington Pub. Corp.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780758267375
Subjects: Murder; Newspaper publishing; Single mothers; Cooking; Fiction; Bar Harbor (Me.); Life change events; Investigation; Secrecy; Food writers; City and town life; Female friendship
Description: "Single mum Hayley Powell is barely keeping her leaking roof over her head when her boss at the "Island Times" gives her a new assignment - taking over the paper's food column. Hayley's not sure she has the chops--she's an office manager, not a writer, even if her friends clamor for her mouth-watering potluck dishes. But the extra income is tempting, and Hayley's chatty first column is suddenly on everyone's menu - with one exception. When rival food writer Karen Appelbaum is found face-down dead in a bowl of Hayley's creamy clam chowder, all signs point to Hayley. To clear her name, she'll have to enlist some help, including her BFFs, a perpetually pregnant lobster woman, and a glamorous real estate agent. As she whips up a list of suspects, Hayley discovers a juicy secret about the victim - and finds herself in a dangerous mix with a cold-blooded killer"--P. [4] of cover.