Hillary Avis

Chili con Carnage Hillary Avis

Chefs will compete to win-and someone will lose their life.

The nation's hottest new reality show-the Ultimate Freakin' Cook-off-is coming to town, and Newbridge's chefs are champing at the bit to demonstrate their best chili recipes in a televised showdown.

With a huge cash prize and a front-page feature in the local newspaper up for grabs, Bethany decides to put her skills to the test. It'll be good for her business, and face it, she needs the prize money to pay the rent while her soup kiosk is closed during the train station renovation.

But when one person is hospitalized and another dies after tasting entries in the contest, Bethany and the other chefs are the prime suspects in a murder investigation. The ultimate showdown is about more than who has the best recipe-it's about who has the best motive.

Will Bethany catch the killer before another unsuspecting diner is poisoned? Or will the rogue murderer's rampage close all the restaurants in town?

Includes delicious recipes!

If you like smart culinary mysteries with quirky characters and quaint seaside towns, you'll love the Death du Jour series that follows Bethany Bradstreet as she builds her culinary career and solves crimes with the help of her friends.

Chili con Carnage is the third book in the Death du Jour series.

This book has clean language and mild suspense with no cliffhangers. It contains depictions of an LGBT relationship.

The DEATH DU JOUR Series: Crime Chowder (Book 1) Risky Bisqueness (short story, Book 1.5) Rest in Split Peas (Book 2) Chili con Carnage (Book 3) Lentil Death Do Us Part (Book 4)