Peregrine gets a lesson in all things culinary when celebrated head chef at Samuel's ex-mother-in-law's international cookery school, Graham King, is murdered.

Peregrine ventures into the world of a top-secret science facility run by the government where Cecile Armand, an old comrade of Birdie's, is found frozen to death in a crashed car.

When a pop star singer and his back-up singer are electrocuted during their surf-inspired spot on a TV music show, Peregrine's ex-boyfriend Eric is under suspicion for their deaths.

Summonsed from her coastal home to claim her rightful inheritance, the unstoppable Peregrine Fisher manages to inveigle her way into a murder investigation.