Set in a quaint Chesapeake Bay town, the latest novel in Maya Corrigans Five-Ingredient Mysteries brings back caf manager Val Deniston and her recipe columnist grandfather a sleuthing duo that shares a Victorian house, a love of the culinary arts, and a talent for catching killers.

At the site of a fatal blaze, Vals boyfriend, a firefighter trainee, is shocked to learn the victim is known to him, a woman named Jane who belonged to the local Agatha Christie book cluband was rehearsing alongside Vals grandfather for an upcoming Christie play being staged for charity. Just as shocking are the skeletal remains of a man found in the freezer. Who is he and who put him on ice?

After Val is chosen to replace Jane in the play, the cast gathers at their house to get to workand enjoy Grandads five-ingredient parfaitsbut all anyone can focus on is the bizarre real-life mystery. When its revealed that Janes death was due to something other than smoke inhalation, Val and Grandad try to retrace her final days. As they dig into her past life, their inquiry leads them to a fancy new spa in townwhere they discover that Jane wasnt the only one who had a skeleton in the cooler . . .

Includes delicious five-ingredient recipes!