"Chili Chili Bang Bang" by Denise Swanson ~ A Chef-to-Go Mystery
CHILI CHILI BANG BANG
By Denise Swanson
A Chef-to-Go Mystery
Dani Sloan will have to solve the Chili Challenge murder before she or one of her fellow competitors’ chances of surviving the contest aren’t worth a hill of beans. Once again, it looks like Dani’s best laid plans have been blown up…
Things in Normalton, IL are getting hot, hot, hot. When the small Midwest college town is chosen to host the Route 66 Rally’s Chili Challenge, not everyone’s excited by the prospect. Campus activists are upset about the environmental impact, the economic inequity, and the consumption of meat.
And when the contestants’ ingredients and equipment are peppered with a series of sabotages, it becomes clear the line between protesting and causing physical damage has been crossed. Soon it’s evident that there’s someone who’s willing to take a life to get their point across, and Dani must not only cook a killer batch of chili, she also has to follow a trail of clues to save the contest, her fellow competitors, and herself.
Dani learns that having too many cooks can not only spoil the chili contest, but also lead to murder!