Crush Week in Nouvelle Vie is a madhouse—in a good way. Tourists pour into town for the pressing of the Napa Valley’s world-renowned grapes and all the town’s businesses get a nice lift, including Bistro and Maison Rousseau. Mimi is raising the ante this year with a Sweet Treats Festival, a wonderland of croissants, cakes, tarts, and soufflés crafted with expert care by the area’s top talents.
Chef Camille’s sister Renee is managing the festival with a cast-iron fist, upsetting everyone, including her sister. Which is bad for Camille when Renee turns up dead in the chef’s kitchen. Mimi is still building her business, so her first course of action is to whip up answers and catch the unsavory perpetrator before Camille takes a dusting and gets burned.
Mimi has recovered from the previous happenings at the Bistro and both the Bistro and Maison Rousseau are doing well, bookings are up and part of the grounds are being used for a Sweet Treats Festival, with some of the proceeds going towards helping education. Chef Camille's sister (Renee) is in charge of the festival, and she is so determined to make a good show of it that she is upsetting people left, right and centre, including Chef C, Renee's husband, and the previous organiser of the festival. Everything seemed to be going okay though until Chef C arrives home late at night to find Renee dead in the kitchen, now she is in the cross hairs as a suspect and Mimi needs to prove her innocent.
Oh and things are heating up between Mimi and Nash, no thanks to Nash's ex wife!
I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of this book through NetGalley.
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