A Bitter Feast by Deborah Crombie

Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid are invited to their colleague Melody Talbot's parents' Cotswold home for the weekend with their children, Kit, Toby, and Charlotte. A well-known chef, Viv Holland, is catering a charity lunch at the Talbot's home, but the night before the luncheon two people are killed in a car accident that also injures Duncan. One of the dead turns out to be famous chef, Fergus O'Reilly, with whomViv worked in London. Viv and O'Reilly argued the evening he died. Could this have something to do with his death? Even though it's not Gemma's and Duncan's patch, they find themselves getting involved in the investigation and wanting to see it through to its end. A Bitter Feast will be published in October.