Dial M For Meat Loaf: A Culinary Mystery

As Minnesota housewives race to meet the deadline for the Times Register's meat loaf contest, an unsavory small-towner named Kirby Runbeck is blown to smithereens by a car bomb. Days later, the town's former mayor, near death from a stroke, confesses to the killing. His family vehemently denies it. But when Sophie Greenway, food maven and friend of the family, happens upon an old snapshot, she wonders . . .