Crafts and Life

Lana Lee runs her family's Chinese restaurant in Cleveland's Asia Village like nobody's business. When it comes to actual cooking, however, she's known to be about a step up from boiling rice. So Lana decides to go to culinary school on the sly–and prove that she has what it takes in the kitchen after all. But when course instructor Margo Chan turns up dead after class, Lana suddenly finds herself on the case, frying pan in hand.

Since she was the one who discovered the body, Lana must do double duty in finding the killer and clearing her name. Now, with or without the help of her boyfriend Detective Adam Trudeau, Lana launches her own investigation into Margo's life and mysterious death. Doing so leads her on a wild goose chase to and from the culinary school–and all the way back to the Ho-Lee noodle shop, where the guilty party may be closer than Lana thinks.

Lana has decided to learn to cook basic Asian food (at the moment she could burn water!), the thing is the only person she has told is her flatmate Megan (as Lana is embarrassed!), on the first night she meets the tutor (Margo Chan) and at the end of the session asks Margo if she could have some private lessons on top of the course.  After an agreement is struck Lana heads home, only to realise that she needs to head back to pick up the information on the next session which she left behind.  The only problem is she finds the information AND Margo well and truly dead! Now Lana is in the crosshairs of the local Detective and her own Detective/boyfriend cannot help as it is outside his jurisdiction, if Lana doesn't want her next cookery lesson to be in a prison kitchen she, along with Megan and Lana's other good friend Kimmy, will need to find out who had the knives out for Margo and they will need to find out fast!