Callie & the Dealer & a Dog Named Jake — Wendy Howell Mills

North Carolina's scenic Outer Banks is a beach haven for tourists and locals alike. There are some oddballs, too, like those running the kitchen at the Holiday House hotel, where restaurant manager Callie McKinley works. Toss in a raving, unpredictable chef and the discovery of a body in the walk-in freezer, and life suddenly gets as dangerous as it is crazy.

The dead man, an employee of the hotel's Seahorse Café, unwittingly let Callie in on a little secret before he died: somebody is cooking the restaurant's books. As Callie pieces together clues that link frozen seafood to smugglers, she knows she's stumbled into big trouble. Now somebody wants her dead. And Callie is about to discover that the frying pan is just as dangerous as the fire.