Didn't You Use to Be Queenie B?: A Gripping Foodie Mystery Novel Featuring a Humorous Unlikely Friendship, Uncover the Secrets Behind the Disgraced Celebrity Chef's Vanishing Act

For everyone who loved The Bear! An utterly winning, crowd-pleaser of a novel about a disgraced celebrity chef, her striving protégé, and their path through the kitchen to redemption. Regina Benuzzi is Queenie B-a culinary goddess with Michelin Star restaurants, a bestselling cookbook empire, and multimillion-dollar TV deals.It doesn’t hurt that she’s gorgeous and curvaceous, with cascading black hair and signature red lips. She had it all. Until she didn’t. After an epic fall from grace, Queenie B vanishes from the public eye, giving up everything: her husband, her son, and the fame that she’d fought to achieve.Her shows are in rerun, her restaurants still popular, but her disappearance remains a mystery to her legions of fans. Local line cook Gale Carmichael also knows a thing or two about disaster.Newly sober and struggling, Gale’s future dreams don’t hold space for culinary stardom; only earning enough to get by.Broke at the end of the week, he finds himself at a local soup kitchen