Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Lula, best friend of bounty hunter Stephanie, is standing nearby when celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle is beheaded. She is a witness to a killing, and before long she is in the middle of a murder case.

Chipotle's sponsors put up a $1 million reward for whoever caught his killers. Lula decides the murderer may be one of the cooks at a local BBQ cook-off, so she signs up for the contest herself, even though she has no cooking skill at all.

Stephanie has her own problem to deal with. Ranger, her ex-boyfriend, is looking into a run of burglaries among his clients, and he offers to work with her on both cases. Meanwhile the danger grows, because hired killers connected to Chipotle are after the women, and they are not very good at the job. Lula also starts a romance with Marco, one of the rival contestants.

This is an amateur-sleuth murder mystery with a comic tone, built around a contest and a reward. The women have to work out who is really behind the killing before the people hunting them catch up.