Simmer Down — Susan Conant; Jessica Conant-Park

Gourmet Girl Chloe Carter's dream boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, is prepping for the opening of Simmer, Boston's soon-to-be hottest new restaurant -- which means her love life is being put on the back burner. Josh is too busy to be her own personal naked chef for a while...

But bigger problems are to come. At a fund-raiser featuring samples of Josh's cuisine, a trendy club owner is found bludgeoned to death -- by Josh's state-of-the-art, professional-grade food processor, the ominously named Robocoupe.

By opening night at Simmer, the list of suspects is almost longer than the line to get in. And Chloe is racing to solve the crime before the final course is served...