Dead Man's Broth — Tim Hemlin

TOO MANY COOKS

Houston's culinary luminaries all know each other . . . much too well. Perry Stevens is the city's hot caterer. Magazine publisher Agnes Berryman dishes up the last word on cuisine. And the city's most celebrated kitchen artist is TV chef Sherwood Welles. Suddenly Welles is super-famous--now that he's been brutally murdered. When primp suspect Perry Stevens is arrested, his chef (and part-time sleuth) Neil Marshall swears to hash out the truth.