Frosted with Malice: 2

This book is part 2 of the Maple Creek Bakery Mistery seriesShe built the cake. She didn't expect it to become evidence.When Cora Rossi-Ashford accepts the commission to create a five-tier champagne buttercream masterpiece for the Harrington-Thorne wedding, she expects the biggest challenge to be the hazelnut praline. She doesn't expect to find the groom dead in the walk-in cooler the morning of the ceremony.The Maple Creek sheriff's department has a theory. The groom's business partner had motive, opportunity, and a financial dispute that had been building for months. But Cora noticed things at the rehearsal dinner that don't fit the obvious answer - a phone call overheard in a hallway, a door seal that didn't quite catch, a pharmacist sister-of-the-bride whose composure seemed less like calm and more like conclusion.Cora isn't a detective. She's a baker. But she pays attention, and paying attention in Maple Creek has a way of leading somewhere uncomfortable.With help from her social-media-savvy assistant Peggy, the town's formidable elder Agnes Whitmore, and a tabby cat named Biscotti who turns out to have better instincts than most humans, Cora follows the trail from a Boston hotel dinner to a Portland pharmacy to the most precisely calculated crime she's ever encountered - one where the method was medicine, the motive was justice, and the answer changes everything she thought she understood about what it means to stop something terrible from happening.A wedding cake for eighty-three people. A murder with no obvious villain. A small town that holds more history than it shows.FROSTED WITH MALICE is the second book in the Maple Creek Bakery Mystery series - a cozy mystery full of warmth, food, complex characters, and the particular complications of small-town life where everyone knows everyone's grandmother.

Pagina's: 130, Paperback, A. R. Lena