"Therapy Can Be Murder"

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“If I’m going to lose my mind, I’d rather it happen somewhere edible.” Clara Hastings lives with six women inside her head to survive one career, two Michelin stars, and the exhausting burden of being unforgettable. Manhattan worships her: glamorous, merciless, and exquisitely unstable. Her restaurants are temples; her dinners, theater. Her knives are sharpened before the guests arrive. Espagnole keeps her ruthless. Velouté wants applause. Hollandaise is terrified of everything, including calories and abandonment. Roux catalogs every insult, glance, stain, and possible felony in compulsive detail. Béarnaise wants sex and bad decisions, preferably both before dessert. Ganache has the emotional maturity of a three-year-old with access to matches. Tonight, the Committee is starving. Clara’s therapist has refused to give her what she wants. By midnight he is dead—arranged in the exact position Clara once imagined him in, surrounded by several intimate little artifacts she would rather not explain to the police. But Clara didn’t kill him. She’s almost certain she didn’t. Then Detective Nathan Cole walks into the room, and the temperature rises without anyone touching the stove. Across Manhattan, a psychopath named Orchid is keeping time, planning another final afternoon, course by course, minute by minute. Someone is framing Clara. Unless the newest voice in her head has finally developed a taste for murder. ——— FOR REVIEWERS, PLEASE READ FIRST Book One of a completed two-book mystery arc. Big revelations land here, but the central mystery is not resolved until Book Two, Appetite for Ruin, publishing 20 April 2027. Expect the first half of a whole, not a standalone — that is by design. 478 pages. Please claim only if you have time to finish it. Contains an on-page murder investigation, blood, dark humour and strong sexual tension. No explicit sex, no graphic gore. Releases 20 October 2026. Goodreads and StoryGraph reviews are welcome any time; Amazon may not accept one until release day.