9780345420022 | Ballantine Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: When Houston's most famous TV chef is found dead, the city's most sought-after caterer is in hot water, having risen to the top of the suspect list, and his chef, part-time sleuth Neil Marshall, is determined to dish out the truth

9780345420015 | Ballantine Books, December 1, 1998, cover price $5.99 | also contains The Shaman Within: A Physicist's Guide to the Deeper Dimensions of Your Life, the Universe, and Everything | About this edition: Six days before Christmas, poet, grad student, and gourmet catering chef Neil Marshall is in the midst of a slump when his grandfather, an unlikely murder suspect, appears on his doorstep

9780345409027 | Ballantine Books, October 1, 1997, cover price $5.50 | About this edition: When the bodyguard of congressional candidate Chip Gunn is stabbed and his assistant becomes the prime suspect, catering chef Neil Marshall turns amateur sleuth to clear the assistant's name and finds himself caught in a deadly web of organized crime, politics, and murder

9780345403193 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1997), cover price $5.50 | About this edition: After witnessing the near-fatal shooting of a legendary private investigator, graduate student Neil Marshall is drawn into a whirlwind of violence that takes him to the bedside of a fascinating woman

9780345403186 | Ballantine Books, July 1, 1996, cover price $5.50 | About this edition: Struggling poet and chef Neil Marshall becomes a prime suspect in the murder of his best friend, a racehorse breeder, and must plumb the dark underworld of horse theft and illegal breeding in order to clear his name