In the Northern California seaside town of Santa Sofia, a killer is trying to get a rise out of baker’s apprentice Ivy Culpepper . . .
Vincent van Dough focaccia is being touted on Instagram as the best thing since sliced bread. By strategically placing chives, olives, and yellow peppers to look like poppies and sunflowers, bakers create a mouthwatering masterpiece in the style of the great postimpressionist painter. At Yeast of Eden, where bread making has always been an art, they’re baking their own version for the school district’s Spring Fling.
But one person won’t be tasting the Mexican bakery’s latest specialty. Ambitious school board president Nessa Renchrik has been murdered. Like the rest of this close-knit community, Ivy is shocked. But she’s just as surprised to discover her beau—restaurateur Miguel Baptista—had his own fling with Nessa back in the day and now the police have this half-baked notion he might have killed her. It’s up to Ivy, her boss Olaya Solis, and eighty-six-years-young Penelope Branford to separate the wheat from the chaff to determine who the real culprit is . . .
This book starts oh so well with a wedding between Ivy's best friend Emmy and Ivy's brother Billy, the day is going great until the new Detective in town gets notification of a murder, Emmy is the Chief of Police but as she is headed off on her honeymoon she asks Ivy to keep a finger on the investigative pulse. Ivy would have helped Emmy out anyway but it becomes more personal when the Detective latches onto Ivy's boyfriend Miguel as Suspect #1.
Now with more and more suspects (in Ivy's eyes) appearing on the scene this is a fast paced book with a twist I wasn't expecting! I will be reading #7 before too much time goes by.
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