Death on the Menu

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Havana and Key West have had a long association with writer Ernest Hemingway. If you have been to either location, there are very visible signs of his life in both places with houses in each. In Death on the Menu by Lucy Burdette, food critic Hayley Snow is excited to be participating in a three-day conference at Harry Truman's Little White House, even if it is a a staff person for her mother's fledgling catering company. On sale today.

The event brings together dignitaries from Havana and Key West in a rare moment of friendship. But there are protesters planning demonstrations with hints of a major disruption, and Hayley's police detective boyfriend Nathan Bransford asks her to step aside from catering the event. Of course, Hayley doesn't take that advice and neither does her mother.  On display is Hemingway's Nobel prize gold medal for The Old Man and the Sea, which has been in Cuba and is on loan to the Key West event.

At the very beginning of the event, the medal is discovered

missing, creating a major political catastrophe. The curator of the Little White House tries to convince everyone the medal was misplaced or overlooked in the unpacking and the search is on. When Gabriel, a family friend and a server at the event goes missing, suspicion naturally falls on him. His family left Cuba when he as young and he has expressed anti-Cuban government sentiments.

When Gabriel is found stabbed to death in a storeroom and the medal is still missing, his family begs Hayley to help them prove he didn't do anything wrong. Conflicting interests among the Key West delegation causes Hayley to look in their direction.

Another excellent contribution to the Key West Food Critic series. Check out Lucy Burdette's interview on Wednesday, August 8.

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