Title: The Silence of the Flans
Description: Baker Winnie Johnson does her best work when the heat is on. As owner of the Emergency Dessert Squad, she has a deft touch in the kitchen and a soft spot for lost causes. So when her business professor beau, Jay Morgan, expresses misgivings over having to fail one of his fourth-year students, Winnie cooks up a sweet solution.

She'll offer an extra credit opportunity in exchange for a little help with her growing business. But when her protégé's first dessert delivery poisons a student journalist, the publicity threatens to burn Winnie's business to a crisp. Now the entrepreneur-turned-detective must uncover the ingredients behind a recipe for murder before she crumbles under pressure...
Subjects: Fiction, Cozy mystery, foodie, bakery, cat, friendship, romance, murder, An Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery
Places: Silver Lake, Ohio
People: Winnie Johnson, Renee Ballentine, Jay, Morgan, Parker Nelson, Bridget O'Keefe, Lovey
Time periods: Contemporary, 2017