When a restaurant rivalry turns deadly in her coastal California town, Coffee, Books, and More owner Jill Gardner King must solve the murder before she can celebrate the New Year . . .
Turns out Jill will not be ringing in the New Year with her new husband, Greg, on a relaxing getaway in Mexico. Instead, an accident involving her store's manager keeps her in South Cove, where she finds a competition heating up-to a deadly degree-for a local restaurant to win a float appearance at the New Year's Parade.
Lille Stanley, the not-so-beloved proprietor of the town's beloved diner, Diamond Lille's, is going head-to-head with a hot new soup shop. But when its owner's husband is found dead, clutching a secret recipe from Diamond Lille's, the diner diva finds herself deep in the soup. Now it's up to Jill to make sure justice is ladled o
