A Cup of Holiday Fear
Paperback, 304 pages
Published September 24th 2019 by St. Martin's Paperbacks
Goodreads synopsis:
It's Christmastime and everyone is heading to Torte, the most cheerful bakery in town. There's no place like home for the homicide...
Ashland, Oregon, looks as pretty as a postcard this holiday season. The halls are decked, stockings hung, and eyes are all aglow--mostly thanks to the buttered rum. Jules Capshaw and her staff at Torte are busier than ever. . . still, even the town's most in-demand bakers need to take a break. So Jules invites everyone to celebrate at the local Winchester Inn's Dickens Feast, a six-course extravaganza with Yorkshire Pudding, Christmas goose, and all the trimmings. But as the weather outside becomes frightful, things inside turn less delightful when one of the guests ends up as dead as Scrooge's doornail. Now it's up to Jules and her helpers to make a list of suspects--and check it twice--to try to find out who's naughty, who's nice, and who's guilty of murder...
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4.75 Stars
This is the tenth book in the Bakeshop Mystery series by Ellie Alexander.
It is so easy to slip back into this series no matter where you left off. I am in love with Ashland and all its residents!
I could so easily see myself in Jules Capwell’s place when she found the body of the new owner of the Winchester Inn dead. She just wanted to help out the family as they offered their last Dickens Feast before retiring. As happens in situations like this, anything that can go wrong, did go wrong. Santa was drunk in the basement and all the specialized ornaments were broken. The couple’s son who was playing the role of Scrooge left in the middle of the food service and then the power went out. What a night!
Sometimes books like this give me stress because I can empathize with the characters and their plight. It was really hard to tell who might have wanted the annoying lady dead. I mean, come on, she was rude and exasperating but it didn’t seem like that would be a motive to kill her. Maybe in their minds. Then little by little the truth behind her lies started surfacing and then you discovered why everyone was out to get this vexing woman.
I really enjoyed the ending of this and the surprise that came for Jules. I should have expected it but I didn’t. That momment just made all the stress I had accumulated during the book all melt away in a wash of gooey happiness.
This series is just fun. Torte and all the people in Ashland make you want to keep running back for more time and time again. Definitely check this one out.
Highly recommended.
I received this as an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) in return for an honest review. I thank NetGalley, the publisher and the author for allowing me to read this title.
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