When Mark Templeton, restaurant manager, entered Le Chop gastronomic restaurant in Birmingham for his normal evening shift, he did not expect to find the 3 Michelin-starred chef and patron of Le Chop, Louis Bonnaire, murdered. Carlos Sanchez, the kitchen porter was arrested immediately, by a police detective who happened to be in the 'little kitchen' at the time of the murder. Carlos was stood over the corpse with a meat cleaver in hand, 500 in his pocket along with the restaurant safe key. However, the murder was not the only thing that was bad and strange news of late at Le Chop: Donna Knock, the recently appointed sommelier, had better English language skills than restaurant skills; the sous chef Alfonso Charbonneau was glad Louis was dead; Tabitha, the owner, had a secret crush on someone and the food of late at Le Chop had been bad bordering on the shocking. Mark Templeton, helped solve the case of murder at Le Chop, where everything beneath face-value was not what it seemed..."