Within 24 hours, two murders have been committed in an upscale French restaurant on the Maine coastline in the small town of Crystal Bay. No one seems to have any ideas of how they came about, not even its owners, Gaston and Jacques, who by the way, are also French and have worked alongside as chefs/friends for many years. The fun filled cruise trip from the Mediterranean seems to have led to the disappearance of their fellow chefs leaving them with way too many questions and not enough answers. Murder, mayhem, and missing persons will leave you wondering as to what an artichoke can really do. Or can it? It's an arm chair plot that will take you for a ride down the Maine coastline and let you see it from a different point of view. So take your twisted cocktail and mini appetizer along with you, and hope you can make it to the final course, dessert, before you ask yourself, was it Death By Artichoke or not? What was that appetizer on your plate, I ask you?