A sparkling debut mystery set on the south side of Chicago, featuring the quick-witted, unforgettable Savvy Summers, proprietor of a soul food café. When Savvy Summers first opened Essie’s Place, she never expected her customer-favourite sweet potato pie to become the centre of a murder investigation. But when Grandy Jaspers, the seventy-five year-old neighbourhood womaniser, drops dead at Table Two, she suddenly has more to worry about than just maintaining Essie’s reputation for the finest soul food on Chicago’s South Side. Even as the police deem Grandy’s death an accident, Savvy quickly finds herself—and her beloved café—in the middle of an entire city’s worth of bad press. Desperate to clear her name and keep her business afloat, Savvy and her snooping assistant manager, Penny Lopés, take it upon themselves to find who really killed Grandy. But with a slimy investor harassing her to sell her name and business, customers avoiding her sweet potato pie like the plague, and her police sergeant ex-husband suddenly back in the picture, will Savvy be able to clear the café’s name and solve Grandy’s murder before it all falls apart? While Savvy always said her sweet potato pie was to die for, she never meant literally.
