Over the Edge

"Over the Edge is bold, lyrical, and unsettling. Kelly takes risks with structure and psychology, and brings sharp instincts and emotional intelligence to the page. Over the Edge is a stand-out work."
Synopsis:
When detective Cara LaRoche traces a double homicide into the heart of New Orleans' underground dining scene, she doesn't expect to find Julien Marchand-a reclusive chef with Michelin-starred brilliance and secrets sharper than his knives.
Julien is enigmatic, haunted, magnetic-and hiding something.
Each course he serves at his ultra-exclusive restaurant, Les Délices Violents (The Violent Delights), is more than food. It's a confession. And Cara is determined to decode it.
As her investigation tangles with temptation, Cara's obsession with uncovering Julien's past threatens to consume them both, like two predators stalking each other from opposite sides of the flame. But some secrets don't want to be found. And some men don't want salvation.
For readers of psychological thrillers, not procedural mystery purists. Think Se7en, Zodiac, Gone Girl, & The House That Jack Built, Over the Edge is a sexy, slow-burn psychological thriller about desire and the lies we serve to survive.

"Over the Edge is a brooding, atmospheric Southern noir that blends culinary artistry, grief, obsession, and murder. It reads like Hannibal crossed with Top Chef, with the emotional undertow of Sharp Objects or The Devil All the Time.
It's not just a murder mystery-it's a meditation on hunger (emotional, sexual, spiritual), and how that hunger can twist.
Kelly's prose is rich without being overwrought, and he sustains mood like a maestro. The setting-New Orleans' French Quarter, with its ghosts and grime-is a character in its own right."