When a trendy club owner is found bludgeoned to death at a food-sampling fund raiser, Chloe Carter helps her chef boyfriend prepare for the opening of his new restaurant in Boston and investigates an unsettlingly long list of suspects.
Leandra, a Simmer server, turns up strangled with her own apron strings in a seafood delivery truck . Most of the restaurant's staff appear to have despised her, but who hated her enough to kill her?
Chloe Carter desperately needs a job, so she takes one assisting a cookbook writer. Unfortunately it stirs up painful memories of her ex-boyfriend Josh, who left her for Hawaii. While compiling a book of recipes from Boston's top chefs, she comes in contact with one of Josh's friends, Digger. Chloe manages to stay cool until later she finds Digger's apartment charred--with Digger in it. Not believing that an expert chef would die from a grease fire, she sets about looking for Digger's killer. But things get sticky when the tragedy brings Josh back to Boston--and back into Chloe's life.