Key Lime Crime: A Key West Food Critic Mystery

The tenth Key West Food Critic cozy mystery is sizzling with pie enthusiasts and murder suspects. When a fierce rivalry between key lime pie bakers leads to a pastry chef's murder, food critic Hayley Snow is fit to be pied. During the week between Christmas and New Year's, the year-round population of Key West, Florida, faces a tsunami of tourists and snowbirds. It doesn't help that outrageously wealthy key lime pie aficionado David Sloan has persuaded the city to host his pie-baking contest, with every pie purveyor on the island vying to win the coveted Key Lime Key to the City.

Meanwhile, Hayley's home life is turning more tart than sweet. Her new husband, police detective Nathan Bransford, announces that Hayley's intimidating mother-in-law is bearing down on the island for a surprise visit. Hayley offers to escort Nathan's crusty mom on the iconic Conch Train Tour of the island's holiday lights, but it becomes a recipe for disaster when they find a corpse among the glittering palm trees and fantastic flamingos. The victim, the controversial new pastry chef at Au Citron Vert, was a frontrunner in Sloan's contest.

Florida is alight with the frenzy of the holiday season, and Key Zest food critic Hayley Snow is on the scene to report on the pie-baking competition. It's bad enough that Hayley's too-curious mother-in-law is cooking up trouble. Now, the murderer is out to take a slice out of Hayley. Can she handle the heat of a killer's kitchen?

The tenth Key West Food Critic cozy mystery is piping hot, as Hayley navigates the cutthroat world of key lime pie bakers and a deadly murder investigation. With her home life in turmoil and a killer on the loose, Hayley must use all her skills as a food critic to uncover the truth and save herself from becoming the next victim. Florida's holiday season has never been so deliciously dangerous.

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