[Lady Detective Hannah Starvling 01] • The Chef at the Water's Edge

Hannah Starvling is a former FBI agent turned Chef Culinary Consultant along with her friends Buster and Cate Jordon attend a cooking festival honoring the town’s famous Chef, Julia Karas, who died a year prior in a terrible accident.

Hannah resigned her position with the FBI after a nasty incident that left her incapable to work in the field. Her second love with cooking and after attending a posh school in Paris, compliments of her Grand Parents, she was on her way to a peaceful career and life or was she?

Hannah has always been curious by nature and cannot resist any opportunities to solve mysteries when presented to her. So when the Jordon’s long time friend, Louie invites Hannah to join the festival and stay at his house to go over the death of Mrs. Karas, she couldn’t turn it down. It did not take long for Hannah to realize that something was not right.

Working her way through the twists and turns of a public life gone tragically wrong her investigation her investigation is complicated by a man that stirs her emotions and perhaps clouds her judgment.

Now she must find the answers to two questions:

1. What really happened to Julia Karas?

2. And more importantly, why was the Chef at the water’s edge.