Stick a Fork In It
by Robin Allen
Order up: one Timothy McViegh and a lethal injection on the rocks
As a health inspector and former chef, Poppy Markham thought she’d seen it all—until she stepped into Capital Punishment. The restaurant’s twisted concept, last meals of famous death row inmates, just might be a hit in Austin, Texas. The macabre theme becomes all too real when co-owner Troy Sharp—a hard-drinking ex-jock and all around jerk—is found dangling from a hangman’s noose in the cinderblock dining room. So who sent Troy to that big end zone in the sky: his fed-up wife, the restaurant manager he once bullied, or his resentful twin brother?