"During the week between Christmas and New Year's, the population of Key West, Florida, faces a tsunami of tourists and snowbirds. It doesn't help that wealthy key lime pie aficionado David Sloan has persuaded the city to host his pie-baking contest. Every pie purveyor on the island is out to win the coveted Key Lime Key to the City, and Key Zest food critic Hayley Snow is on the scene to report it. When her hubby, police detective Nathan Bransford, announces that his mother is bearing down on the island for a visit, Hayley offers to escort her on the iconic Conch Train Tour of the island's holiday lights. When they find the corpse of Au Citron Vert's controversial new pastry chef--a front runner in Sloan's contest."--Publisher.