Dial M for Meat Loaf

RECIPE FOR MURDER

As Minnesota housewives race to meet the deadline for the Times
Register’s meat loaf contest, an unsavory small-towner named Kirby Runbeck is blown
to smithereens by a car bomb.

Days later, the town’s former mayor, John Washburn,
near death from a stroke, confesses to the killing. His wife and two children vehemently
deny it, but when Sophie Greenway, food maven and friend of the family, happens upon
an old snapshot, a bundle of letters, and a tattoo of a red-eyed snake, she wonders
about Washburn’s innocence. Unlike the recipe for a prize meat loaf, this murder
is seasoned with spicy secrets and a generous portion of scandal, which Sophie dares
to bring to a roiling boil… .