Nothing Bundt Trouble
(A Bakeshop Mystery #11)
by
Paperback, 304 pages
Expected publication: June 30th 2020 by St. Martin's Press
This time, Torte's pastry chef and amateur sleuth finds herself coming out of the oven and straight into the fire in Ellie Alexander's Nothing Bundt Trouble: A Bakeshop Mystery.
Spring has sprung in Ashland, Oregon, and everything at Torte seems to be coming up buttercream roses. But just when Juliet Capshaw seems to have found her sweet spot--with her staff set to handle the influx of tourists for this year's Shakespeare festival while she moves back into her childhood home--things take a dramatic turn. Jules discovers a long-forgotten dossier in her deceased father's belongings that details one of the most controversial cases in Ashland's history: a hit-and-run accident from the 1980s. Or was it?
Now it's up to Jules to parse through a whole new world of details from another era, from unraveling cassette tapes to recipes for Bundt cakes, before an old enemy brings the Capshaw "pastry case" to a modern-day dead end.
Spring has sprung in Ashland, Oregon, and everything at Torte seems to be coming up buttercream roses. But just when Juliet Capshaw seems to have found her sweet spot--with her staff set to handle the influx of tourists for this year's Shakespeare festival while she moves back into her childhood home--things take a dramatic turn. Jules discovers a long-forgotten dossier in her deceased father's belongings that details one of the most controversial cases in Ashland's history: a hit-and-run accident from the 1980s. Or was it?
Now it's up to Jules to parse through a whole new world of details from another era, from unraveling cassette tapes to recipes for Bundt cakes, before an old enemy brings the Capshaw "pastry case" to a modern-day dead end.
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4.5 Stars
This is the eleventh book in the Bakeshop mystery series by Ellie Alexander.
These books are always well written and interesting, in my opinion. But this one was a bit different. Juliet finds an old journal of her father's and in it discovers an unsolved mystery her father was helping the police investigate.
There are long stretches of backstory as Juliet reads her father's journal. There isn't a ton about Torte here or even Juliet's relationships. This is all about the mystery from the past that Juliet feels compelled to continue on with.
Definitely a good read, but not exactly what you usually expect from this series.
If you love a good cozy mystery, definitely check this one out.
Received this as an ARC for an honest review.
These books are always well written and interesting, in my opinion. But this one was a bit different. Juliet finds an old journal of her father's and in it discovers an unsolved mystery her father was helping the police investigate.
There are long stretches of backstory as Juliet reads her father's journal. There isn't a ton about Torte here or even Juliet's relationships. This is all about the mystery from the past that Juliet feels compelled to continue on with.
Definitely a good read, but not exactly what you usually expect from this series.
If you love a good cozy mystery, definitely check this one out.
Received this as an ARC for an honest review.
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