Ferro's: A Confidential Murder Mystery

Some kitchens keep secrets better than others.Jess Calloway has spent five years learning to read a kitchen the way other people read a room - who's sharpening knives out of habit and who's sharpening them out of rage, who's stealing a smoke break and who's stealing something worse. At Ferro's, the beloved family restaurant that gave her a shot when no one else would, she thought she knew every secret worth knowing.Then Nick Ferro's estranged sister turns up dead in the walk-in.Terry Ferro hadn't spoken to her brother in two years. Nobody can explain why she was even in the building - or why half the kitchen brigade suddenly looks like they've got something to hide. The chef de cuisine's temper. The pastry chef's stolen recipe. The line cook's mysterious cash. The GM's soft numbers. It's the kind of ensemble where everyone's guilty of something, and Jess is determined to prove it's not murder.She's wrong.Because underneath the grease and the gallows humor and the brigade hierarchy Jess has spent years learning to survive, Ferro's is sitting on something worth killing for - a legacy lease, a rezoned block, and a fortune nobody in the kitchen ever thought to look for. As Jess follows the money instead of the motive, she uncovers a deal, a shell company, and a betrayal that reaches closer to home than she can stand to admit.The kitchen taught her that trust is earned one shift at a time. It never taught her what to do when the person she trusts most turns out to be the reason someone died.Fast, wry, and packed with the kind of insider restaurant detail - the margins, the hierarchy, the real estate - that makes you feel like you're finally seeing what happens behind the pass, Ferro's is a propulsive whodunit for anyone who's ever wondered just how far people will go to keep their kitchen alive.Perfect for fans of culinary thrillers, ensemble mysteries, and the kind of beach read you finish in a weekend and immediately want to recommend to a friend.