Star Chef Balthazar Wolf is found dead, frozen by liquid nitrogen, in the restaurant of Madison Queller, a high-school friend of Beckett. Although he won a fortune in the Kitchen Wars TV show, he owed money to a loan-shark. But two weeks ago, something happened that caused him to change in ways that people noticed, He was also trying to amass more money by selling his heritage share of a diner his foster-dad had willed him to the other part owner, his foster-brother, David Nicolaides. Meanwhile, Castle dates Madison and Becket dates Demming.
—KGF Vissers