A Contest to Kill For: An Alexi Ellis and Ty Maddox Mystery (The Deadline Series Book 2)
How far would you go to win a reality TV show?
Investigative journalist, Alexi Ellis, moves from her high-powered job on a London Sunday paper to live in Lambourn—a sleepy village in the heart of British horseracing country. As an investor in her friends’ ailing boutique hotel she seizes on the chance to have a fly-on-the-wall televised cookery contest filmed there.
Disaster strikes when the sexy, provocative contestant, guaranteed to keep viewers’ temperatures at boiling point, is murdered on set; stabbed through a silicone implant with a chef’s knife. Everyone involved with the contest is suspect but the police home in on the hotel’s glamorous chef, Marcel Gasquet.
Tyler Maddox, ex-Metropolitan Police Detective turned private eye, is working on another case in the area. When he finds ties between his investigation and Alexi’s, he teams up for the second time with the attractive reporter, looking for answers. Delving deeper into the contestants’ backgrounds, they all have compelling reasons to want Juliette dead, but the police seem convinced Marcel is their man.
Can Alexi and Ty clear his name, save the show and secure the future of the hotel…
