After talking her way into a job on a pompous, third-rate chef's radio call-in show, Angie Amalfi has visions of a new career to go along with her hot new romance with Paavo Smith, a gorgeous San Francisco homicide detective. When a successful and much-envied restauranteur is poisoned, however, Angie finds the case much more interesting than trying to make her pretentious boss sound good. Her snooping is driving Paavo crazy, but the delectably irresistible combination of professional jealousy-turned-lethal and seamy sex scandals only whets Angie's appetite for more. And as Paavo knows just too well, Angie's appetites are not easily satisfied....