Baker extraordinaire Bess Brantwood is one of the Yummy Channel's brightest stars - and biggest divas. Despite the off - camera drama. Jen has to admit that Bess's chocolate buttercream cupcakes drizzled with carametl are simply to die for - and kill for, as it turns out - when Bess's body, like a baked good gone bad, is discovered ..... in a dumpster.

Claire Malloy believes there is just one thing better than chocolate...and it's not jumping around in an aerobics class. Nonetheless, she gets roped into accompanying a chubby heiress named Maribeth to Faberville, Arkansas's hottest new fitness centre. Personally, Claire thinks the best way for Maribeth to lose 160 unnecessary pounds would be to dump her abusive husband. But while Claire's teenage daughter Caron unsuccessfully tries every fad diet she can find (as long as it doesn't mean cutting out pizza), Claire has to admit Maribeth's commitment to diet, workouts, and supplements is working...until things go horribly wrong. Besides becoming moonstruck over the big-muscled fitness instructor, Maribeth is acting loony outside the gym as well. And when she ends up "accidentally" dead, Claire starts to exercise her instincts for crime . . . and hunt for a killer.

A nuclear waste truck has an accident, killing a woman and her two children in the middle of the desert in California. It is only the beginning of an investigation by Detective Lt. Major Culpepper, a small town cop, who finds himself within a circle of intrigue and murder that follows him to Washington D.C., New York and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Includes proceedings of the Association, papers read at the annual sessions, and list of current medical literature.