HOT WINGS AND HOMICIDE

Winner, winner, murder for dinner.

Twins Beth and Seth Lloyd have inherited their aunt’s food truck, Kluckin’ Good, and built a popular business in Clementine, California. Beth runs the truck with help from her best friend, Rylie Cortes, who wears a chicken costume to attract customers. Seth, a lawyer, often helps but it takes some persuading to get him into a cow costume. Seth and Rylie have become a couple; meanwhile, Beth’s mother sees her main mission in life as getting Beth married. On their way to Flavors of the Bay, a food festival at Green Family Farm, trouble appears in the form of Brad Dawson, Beth’s former boyfriend, who’d dumped her in a very public way three years earlier. Now he writes food reviews for The City and Beyond that infuriate many people. Seth punches him during a chance meeting and Brad tries to use his smarmy charm to calm things down. Once the festival starts, Kluckin’ Good does a roaring business, much to the dismay of some of the other vendors, who can be competitive. The crew’s luck changes when Beth discovers Brad’s dead body on the way back from the bathroom, and she and her crew immediately become suspects, especially since one of their special cups is found nearby. Sparks fly between Beth and attractive Det. Drew Kane, who’d reluctantly worked with her to solve an earlier murder case and is now on hand at the festival. Unfortunately for Beth, it’s Det. Patricia Wilcox, from a different police force, who’s investigating. The more closely Beth looks into the crime, the more people she finds who might have wanted Brad dead.

An entertaining mystery with amusing characters—including a pet chicken.