The Souffle Sabotage

A Small Town Culinary Cozy Mystery with Cat

De: Maisy Marple

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

When the Gulf Coast Cook-Off comes to Pelican Harbor, Blair Whitcome is ready to compete — shrimp étouffée prepped, roux perfected, and her oversized tabby Lil' Beefy already supervising from the prep counter. But the competition barely gets started before television chef Wade Renaud collapses at his station in a crackle of sparks, and what looked like a tragic accident turns out to be something far more deliberate. Someone tampered with Wade's stand mixer. Someone who knew exactly how to make a kill look like a malfunction. With the cook-off suspended and a killer loose among the remaining competitors, Blair can't help but notice what Detective Delcambre seems to be missing: the answer isn't in the equipment — it's in the recipes.

Blair's investigation pulls her into the cutthroat world of culinary credit, where talent gets swallowed whole and the people doing the real cooking rarely get the glory. As she works her way through a field of suspects — a bitter rival with a stolen-recipe grudge, a sharp-eyed journalist sitting on an explosive exposé, and a quiet apprentice whose motive runs three years deep — the picture that emerges is more complicated than a simple act of rage. Someone didn't just want Wade dead. Someone needed him gone before a cookbook hit shelves and made the theft permanent. Blair feeds suspects biscuits and listens carefully, follows the paper trail Nora digs up at the library, and trusts the instincts that have never once failed her in a kitchen — the same ones that tell her the truth is almost always in the details no one thought to hide.

The Soufflé Sabotage is a warm, witty cozy mystery set in the salt-aired charm of Louisiana's Gulf Coast, where the gossip travels faster than the tide and the food is always worth the trouble. Fans of small-town sleuths, culinary atmosphere, and satisfying evidence-based mysteries will find themselves right at home in Blair's Bistro — especially with Lil' Beefy on the case, a wire nut in his wagon and an opinion about everything.