A celebrity chef is found murdered in his Park City, Utah, restaurant. As Detective Lincoln Coulter investigates, his initial suspects are a clique of chefs known to occasionally disrupt the operations of the competition. Link also discovers that the Russian Mafia is now operating in town and the local boss is obsessed with one of the dead chef's recipes. At the same time, a series of hit-and-run murders begin occurring and the killer is a local celebrity whose murderous rampage is sparked by insomnia and bad hot flashes.