Pizzeria owner Eleanor Swift and her sister Maddy help the police investigate the death of frozen pizza dough baron Laughing Luigi, who died after eating a poisoned slice of the sisters' pizza during a baking contest with a $25,000 prize.

"Cozy towns like Timber Ridge, North Carolina-the home of Eleanor Swift's delectable pizzeria, A Slice of Delight-don't take well to prima donna celebrities. So no one is particularly pleased when TV host and famous chef Antonio Benet roars into town fora book signing and manages to insult Eleanor, her deliciously saucy sister Maddie, and everyone else within earshot. Insults are one thing, however...but a cold dish of murder is quite another."--Dust...

"When the local bank is held up, one of its security guards is murdered during the robbery. Things get even more complicated when the note from the robber is discovered to have been written on a brand new menu from A Slice of Delight. Eleanor and Maddy must dig up the truth before it comes back to haunt them! "--P. [4] of cover.

"These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling, strange, and comic. The modern tribulations of marriage, ambition, and the fear of missing out as the temptations flow like wine and the minutes of life tick down are explored with the characteristic wit and insight that have made Ferris one of our most critically acclaimed novelists. Each of these stories burrows deep into the often...