A huge international bestseller, THE CHEF is a thriller and a love story that has gripped readers across Europe. As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, even the gilded world of Zurich's leading restaurant is feeling the bite and so Tamil dishwasher Maravan - an undiscovered culinary genius - and waitress Andrea hit upon a business idea: romantic catering for couples. But even culinary magic can't ward off recession and they are forced to enter into a much more unsavoury business, plunging them deep into an underworld where murder and sex feed otherwise unquenchable thirsts...