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National bestselling author Lucy Burdette's tenth Key West Food Critic mystery is piping hot with pie-enthusiasts and murder suspects.When a fierce rivalry between key lime pie bakers leads to a pastry chef's murder, food critic Hayley Snow is fit to be pied. During the week between Christmas and New Year's, the year-round population of Key West, Florida, faces a tsunami of tourists and snowbirds. It doesn't help that outrageously wealthy key lime pie aficionado David Sloan has persuaded the city to host his pie-baking contest. Every pie purveyor on the island is out to win the coveted Key Lime Key to the City and Key Zest food critic Hayley Snow is on the scene to report it. Meanwhile, Hayley's home life is turning more tart than sweet. Hayley's new hubby, police detective Nathan Bransford, announces that her intimidating mother-in-law is bearing down on the island for a surprise visit.
About the Author
Clinical psychologist Lucy Burdette writes the national best-selling Key West food critic mysteries, a cozy, culinary mystery series starring food critic Hayley Snow. The 11th book in the series, A SCONE OF CONTENTION, is out now from Crooked Lane Books. Her first thriller, UNSAFE HAVEN, will be published by Severn House this fall!As Roberta Isleib, she wrote the golf lover's mystery series (SIX STROKES UNDER) and the advice column mysteries (DEADLY ADVICE.) Lucy loves using her psychology background in her stories. She also loves to cook and to eat and to talk and write and read about food. She blogs with the wonderful crime fiction writers at Jungle Red Writers, and shares recipes and stories with twelve other cozy mystery writers at Mystery Lovers Kitchen.Lucy's books and stories have been short-listed for Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. THE KEY LIME CRIME won the Florida Book Awards bronze medal for popular fiction. She's a past president of Sisters in Crime, and serves as the president of the Friends of the Key West library.
