The Big Chili, Julia Buckley
The Big Chili, Julia Buckley
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The Big Chili

Author: Julia Buckley

Narrator: Ann Marie Lee

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/09/2021


Synopsis

Lilah Drake's Covered Dish business discreetly provides the residents of Pine Haven, Illinois, with delicious, fresh-cooked meals they can claim they cooked themselves. But when one of her clandestine concoctions is used to poison a local woman, Lilah finds herself in a pot-load of trouble . . .

After dreaming for years of owning her own catering company, Lilah has made a start into the food world through her Covered Dish business, covertly cooking for her neighbors who don't have the time or skill to do so themselves, and allowing them to claim her culinary creations as their own. While her clientele is strong, their continued happiness depends on no one finding out who's really behind the apron.

So when someone drops dead at a church Bingo night moments after eating chili that Lilah made for a client, the anonymous chef finds herself getting stirred into a cauldron of secrets, lies, and murder—and going toe to toe with a very determined and very attractive detective. To keep her clients coming back and her business under wraps, Lilah will have to chop down the list of suspects fast, because this spicy killer has acquired a taste for homicide . . .

About Julia Buckley

Julia Buckley is the author of the Undercover Dish Mysteries and the Writer's Apprentice Mysteries. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and the Chicago Writers Association. She has taught high school English for twenty-nine years.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa Ks Book Reviews on September 01, 2016

I have just found one of my favorite new series of 2015! Author Julia Buckley is a new voice in the cozy mystery world. Like most readers who read series books, I get both excited and a little unsure when the first in a new series comes out. Especially when it’s by an author I’m not familiar with. W......more

Goodreads review by Kim Reads on October 06, 2015

Reviewed by Kim Twenty-seven-year-old Lilah Drake is unlucky in love. Good thing she has a passion for cooking. Currently, she’s a receptionist for her parents’ real estate company. But Lilah has dreams to one day open her own catering company. In order to get her food and cooking skills some exposur......more

Goodreads review by Kirsti on September 27, 2017

Right when I promised myself I'd read more of the books I'd bought but never read, I got particularly sick and in my lowest ebbing moments of flu decided to pick myself up by ordering a few books from my to-read list on Booktopia, a website I'd not used before. I was pleasantly surprised to find a p......more

Goodreads review by Betty on July 23, 2017

The first book of the Undercover series. I enjoyed this author's work and I went back and bought the earlier books. Lilah Drake has a secret business. She provides casseroles for hostesses who take credit for the dishes. She worked for her parents in real estate. Her home is a small cottage behind a......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on October 17, 2021

I devoured this book! Great author and great series. I am looking forward to reading more.......more