Lilah Drake is back in this fourth Undercover Dish mystery. It's summer in Pine Haven, and Lilah is enjoying life: she's in love, she's a popular chef and caterer, she's surrounded by good friends. But her perfect summer has some troubling distractions.
The normally ebullient Angelo Cardelini, Lilah's ex-boyfriend and current boss, has appealed to Lilah for help with a problem in his love life. The always enthusiastic Serafina Drake, Lilah's sister-in-law, has embroiled Lilah in the problems of her friend, a noted historian named Enzo Montanini.
Enzo is researching an Italian serial killer known internationally as The Lake Killer. Enzo's theory is that the Lake Killer is hiding in America--specifically in Pine Haven. Though Lilah thinks this theory unlikely, she is troubled to hear that Enzo's office has been vandalized, and that someone has tried to kill his assistant. Suddenly Lilah and her boyfriend, Detective Jay Parker, investigate many disparate elements which seem to converge in one place: Pine Haven University.
Can a notorious murderer be walking the streets of Pine Haven, Lilah's shady, sleepy town? This question begins to dominate Lilah's life as she and Jay find themselves on a very dangerous trail that might bring them face to face with the Lake Killer.
Summertime and the living is easy, or so Lilah thinks! Things are going well between her and her boyfriend Detective Jay Parker, her Undercover Dish business is going well and she is getting on with her ex Angelo (luckily, as one of Lilah cooking gigs is working with him!), speaking of Angelo though, both Lilah and Jay are a little worried about him, he finally confesses that the lady he cheated on Lilah with had broken up with him (when she realised she was the other woman) and he has realised that he has real feelings for her and would like to win her back. As well as this a friend of Lilah's sister in law is having problems at the local University and Jay offers to look into this for him, with all the suitable twists and turns that Julia Buckley puts into her mysteries this turned into a humdinger of a read and makes me want to read all her books again!
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