Key Lime

A Poisonous Palate

Book 14 coming August 6, 2024

Key West food critic Hayley Snow is working on this week’s articles for Key Zest magazine when an intriguing email hits her inbox, titled Hemingway’s toxic love and an old story. Catherine Davitt tells Hayley that she has returned to the Keys to research a book, but she also wants to investigate the disappearance of an old friend back in the late 1970s...

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A Poisonous Palate

Book 14 coming August 6th

Key West food critic Hayley Snow is working on this week’s articles for Key Zest magazine when an intriguing email hits her inbox, titled Hemingway’s toxic love and an old story. Catherine Davitt tells Hayley that she has returned to the Keys to research a book, but she also wants to investigate the disappearance of an old friend back in the late 1970s.

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The Ingredients of Happiness

Now available in hardcover and ebook
Paperback coming January 25th

Is there a recipe for the perfect life?

Thirty-two-year-old ‘happiness guru’ Dr. Cooper Hunziker has it all—a dream job as assistant psychology professor at Yale University, a soon-to-be published self-help book, The Happiness Connection, and the perfect guy. But there’s a problem. Cooper isn’t happy.

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Culinary cozy fans are in for a treat.
—Publishers Weekly on A Dish to Die For

Key West food critic Hayley Snow proves once again that she understands crime as well as cuisine. A suitably steamy background for a complex tale of murder and deceit.
—Kirkus Reviews on A Dish to Die For

What’s so delightful about the Key West Food Critic mysteries? The setting. The characters. The food. And, of course, the writing.
—Cathy Salustri, the Gabber on A Dish to Die For

A Scone of Contention moves at a brisk pace complemented by appealing characters.
—Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel on A Scone of Contention

Devastating, heartbreaking and completely immersive… Unsafe Haven has Hollywood written all over it!
—Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author

About Lucy

Lucy Burdette is the author of the popular Key West Food Critic mystery series. Her alter-ego, clinical psychologist Roberta Isleib, has also published eight mysteries including the golf lover’s mystery series and the advice column mysteries. Lucy’s first novel of suspense, Unsafe Haven, was published by Severn House Press in December 2021. The Ingredients of Happiness, a novel, was published by Severn House in July 2023. Her books and stories have been shortlisted for Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. Both A Dish to Die For and The Key Lime Crime won the bronze medal for popular fiction from the Florida Book Awards. She’s a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, and a past president of Sisters in Crime. She currently serves as president of the Friends of the Key West Library.

2024 Events

January 25
Keynote Speaker: Friends of the Bonita Springs Library Luncheon
Audubon Country Club
625 Audubon Bvld.
Naples, FL