Topped Chef
(Signet) The third installment in a mystery series, Isleib’s novel continues the story of Hayley Snow, a food critic tapped to judge a reality TV cooking show Key West Topped Chef. When a fellow judge and owner of a restaurant Snow criticized in one of her reviews turns up dead, Snow investigates the case, hoping to avoid becoming a victim. Isleib, writing under the pen name Lucy Burdette, was a clinical psychologist before beginning her writing career.

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