Hot Wings and Homicide (Food Truck Mystery Book # 2) by Carmela Dutra

Twins Beth and Seth Lloyd are on the chopping block in the follow-up to A Murder Most Fowl, where a perfect recipe for murder is stirred up.

Business at Kluckin’ Good is smoking hot. To keep momentum going, Beth and her twin brother, Seth, just scored a prime spot at the Flavors of the Bay Food Festival. For three and a half days, food lovers will flock to the Bay Area’s biggest culinary event to enjoy gourmet food trucks, cook-offs, and live music, but this recipe for success is also the perfect set-up for murder.    

When the infamous food critic Brad Dawson—also Beth’s ex—turns up dead, the only clue at the scene of the crime is a Kluckin’ Good tumbler mug. The timing couldn’t be worse. Beth and Brad were seen in a heated altercation, and days prior, witnesses saw Seth punch Brad. Suspicion naturally falls on the twins. With the cops hot on their trail, Beth will have to avoid the flames to clear their names and save her food truck’s reputation. 

But the chickens are out of the coop, and as Beth digs into Brad’s final hours, she will uncover rivalries, grudges, and a different side of Brad she never knew. If she doesn’t crack the case soon, she might be the next one to get cooked. Best of cluck!  

A mouthwatering mystery for fans of Joanne Fluke that will leave you peckish for more.  (Summary via Goodreads)

Hot Wings and Homicide is the second book in the Food Truck Mystery series by Carmela Dutra with A Murder Most Fowl being the first.  If you read the first book you fell in love with twins Beth and Seth and Beth's best friend Rylie.  If you failed to read the first book, you have plenty of time to catch up or just dive right into Hot Wings and Homicide .... either way works.

In Hot Wings and Homicide Beth and Seth who co-own a food truck will be attending the Flavors of the Bay Food Festival.  They inherited the Kluckin' Good food truck from their aunt and have strived to make her proud and attending this festival is one step closer to doing that.

Unfortunately, a few days before the festival starts they run into Beth's ex-boyfriend Brad at Sugar and Spice, and they have a big blow out fight where Seth gets involved and things do not end well.  Fast forward to the first night of the festival where Beth is heading back from the bathrooms and finds a body on the ground which turns out to be Brad and he is dead from a head injury.

Even though Beth and Brad broke up and he humiliated her, she still didn't wish him dead.  So naturally her and Rylie begin their own little investigation.  But the more she looks, the longer the suspect list gets and she hesitantly has to put her twin and herself on the list even though she knows neither of them are guilty.

Even though there are only two books in this series, so far, readers cannot help but fall in love with Beth, Seth, Rylie and everything else within the story.  

There are two things that you may not about this series .... the food talk and the food talk !!  This book makes readers hungry !!!  So I highly suggest grabbing a snack before you start reading ......