Glutton for Punishment — Cecile Lamalle

BAD STOCK, JUST DESSERTS, AND MURDER

The winter holidays are over, and Chef Charly Poisson and the staff of La Fermette, the finest French restaurant in Van Buren County, New York, are settling down for a quiet season--or so they think--when a ring of antique thieves starts terrorizing their wealthy weekend patrons. Further adding to the bitter brew is Charly's wayward partner, back from detox with another one of his half-baked plans: to invest in Compu Stock A, a shady interest run by mob boss Anthony Buonsarde. Quelle catastrophe! But it's not until a local antiques dealer is found eighty-sixed in the meat freezer of La Fermette that tensions really reach the boiling point. Certainement it's time, once again, for Charly to get out of the kitchen and serve his newest specialty of the house: a full plate of justice.