Murder takes the cake
Subtitle: a Daphne Martin cake mystery
By: Gayle Trent
Edition: 1st Gallery Books trade pbk. ed.
Series: A Daphne Reynolds cake mystery -- 1
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781451600018
Subjects: Bakers; Murder; Investigation; Daphne Martin (Fictitious character); City and town life; Fiction
Description: A routine cake delivery becomes a culinary nightmare when a small-town baker discovers her first client's dead body. It'll take more than a little sugar to convince folks Daphne Martin's freshly baked spice cake was not to blame for the mysterious death of town gossip Yodel Watson. Getting her new cake decorating business, Daphne's Delectable Cakes, off the ground is hard enough now that Daphne's moved back to her southern Virginia hometown, but orders have been even slower since she found Yodel's body. She soon realizes, however, that just about everybody in town had a reason to poison the cantankerous busybody, from the philandering pet shop owner, to Yodel's church potluck nemesis, to the Save-A-Buck's cranky produce manager-turned-bagger. Now, to help prove she's no confectionary killer, Daphne recruits her old flame, Ben Jacobs, editor of the local newspaper, and quickly stirs up a long-hidden family scandal that just might hold the secret ingredient she needs to solve the case. All she's got to do is roll up her sleeves and get her hands a little dirty before the real culprit decides that taking sweet revenge on Daphne will be icing on the cake.