Food columnist Angie Amalfi has it all--brains, beauty, and a cooking talent that can tickle anyone's taste buds. While she's wondering if it's time to cut the wedding cake with Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith, he becomes obsessed with the grisly murder of two women, and Angie has to shake off her oven mitts to help. But the killer has other plans, and she becomes the next target of a vendetta that stretches from the dining rooms of San Francisco's elite to the seedy Tenderloin. Angie is in hot water--but if anyone can take the heat, she can.