Dani's career hits a snag and she takes the opportunity to take a new life path. The path becomes clearer when she inherits a beautiful mansion from a woman she has never met. She decides to simultaneously open Chef-to-Go, a catering business that also sells pre-made, healthy meals, as well as renting out rooms in her new home to college students. A murder suddenly threatens her lifestyle and her freedom when an overzealous detective sets her sites on her. With the help of the handsome uncle of one of her roomers, Dani investigates the murder to clear both her name and that of his niece.

One word described this book for me. Disjointed. Most chapters are written from the POV of Dani, while there are a few written from the POV of "Uncle Spence." The book starts as a strong cozy, but then adds in a bit of thriller and romance. The time frame is off - it seems as though events just happened but Dani refers to months passing. I tend to judge a book by how soon I look at how much is left. In this book, I had only read a quarter of it. By half way through I just didn't care anymore. I also didn't appreciate the author throwing in references to her other books in an effort to sell more of that series. I had never read any of Ms. Swanson's other books (didn't even realize who wrote these until half way through the book) and this writing was not an incentive to read them. I received an ARC from NetGalley and the Sourcebooks Landmark but was pretty disappointed in it.