Cape Cod tearoom proprietor Lily Roberts "pours" over the clues in a
piping hot new case when a confrontational celebrity chef is murdered
during the filming of a popular baking show in the latest Tea by the Sea
mystery from national bestselling author Vicki Delany . . .
The country's hottest TV cooking show is coming to Cape Cod. And against
her better judgment, Lily Roberts is entering America Bakes! with her
charming tearoom, Tea by the Sea. Filming is already proving disruptive,
closing the tearoom during Lily's busiest season. But tensions really
bubble over when infamous bad-boy chef and celebrity judge, Tommy
Greene, loses his temper with Lily's staff, resulting in an on-camera
blowup with Cheryl Wainwright. Just as Lily thinks the competition can't
get more bitter, Tommy is found dead in Tea by the Sea's kitchen . . .
murdered with Lily's rolling pin.
Suspicion immediately falls on Cheryl, but the temperamental star has
racked up plenty of culinary clashes in the past, both on- and
off-screen. And nearly anyone associated with Tommy or the show could be
the killer: be it one of Lily's fierce competitors, a member of the
beleaguered film crew, or even one of Tommy's fellow judges--struggling
cookbook maven, Claudia D'Angelo or beauty contest winner, Scarlet
McIntosh. Now, while she's baking up a storm for the show, Lily must
also whip up an impromptu investigation . . . before the murderer rolls
someone else away.
