The Chef at the Water's Edge

One year ago, in the small town of Zebulon, celebrity chef Julia Karas died in a tragic accident. Now Hannah Starvling, a former FBI agent turned culinary consultant and amateur sleuth, and friends Buster and Cate Jordon attend a cooking festival in the deceased’s memory. But the friend the trio is staying with thinks there is more to the woman’s death than meets the eye and asks for Hannah’s assistance.Working her way through the twists and turns of a public life gone tragically wrong, her investigation is complicated by a man that stirs her emotions and perhaps clouds her judgment. Now she must find the answers to two questions: What really happened to Julia Karas? And more importantly…why was the chef at the water’s edge?