"Will sticking her stiletto into the brie business get this incorrigible foodie toasted?" -- cover.

Journalist and food reviewer Alex Grant is enjoying the last days of her summer holiday in Croatia when she is accosted by an old school friend, Marie Puharich, and her odious brother, Brian, both there to attend the funeral of their grandfather's two loyal retainers. The only upside of the whole sorry business is meeting Marco, the family Adonis. With her fondness for fondue, Alex is unable to resist an invitation to visit the family creamery in Australia's south-west to snoop about and eat her body weight in camembert. But trouble has a way of finding Alex. What begins as a country jaunt in search of a juicy story might just end in death, disaster and the destruction of multiple pairs of shoes.