When the senior food critic for Le Figaro is found face first in a plate of ravioles d'homard, there seem to be as many suspects as there are restaurants in the City of Light. Yet Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier feels she'll solve the case quicker than you can make an omelette aux fines herbes. Murders of food critics have become epidemic and Capucine is confronted with a dilemma: should she use her husband, himself a famous food journalist, as bait?