Tish Tarragon had to close her cafe and is one catering job way from unemployment (or finding a great real estate deal so she can open her cafe again). The catering job is a few meals for a wedding party at a B&B.

One of the other guests at the B&B is a TV chef, best known for his business breaking reviews of restaurants and other places that serve food. He’s in town to film a few segments for a new episode of his show and somewhere along the way, someone has served him some poisonous mushrooms. He dies.

Two complicating details: the man was as much as jerk in real life as he was on camera, so pretty much everyone that knew him hated him. And, at every place he ate the day he was poisoned, he was served mushrooms in one way or another.

Tish and Clemson investigate.

I liked the plot, but there are a few things about the story that bothered me:
- Gunnar Randall is a bully and brings all the women over 50 he bullies to tears. Seriously, all of them. As if women that have been successfully running their own business since their twenties suddenly loose the ability to stand up for themselves as soon as they hit menopause. (The younger women also all cry.)
- Tish and Clayton slurped their noodles. Apparently, my misophony extends to when eating noises are implied in writing.
- Tish and Clemson talk to two people that give a different account of who set up a meeting. They see no reason person A would lie, therefore, person B must have been lying. (And then wonder why person B lied to them.) How about: just because you see no reason person A would lie, doesn’t mean there isn’t a reason.

Clemson and Tish are moving on in their personal relationship, which means there is zero romantic tension between them. They do quip a lot, but mostly they are just dull together.

I read an ARC through NetGalley.