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Murder at First Slice

by V. M. Burns

A wedding, a bakery, and a suspiciously bloody rolling pin

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A wedding, a bakery, and a suspiciously bloody rolling pin

Maddy Montgomery’s wedding brings family and friends to New Bison, Michigan, where a long-running feud between cousins Hannah and Dorothy threatens to overshadow the celebrations. After Dorothy is found dead and Hannah is discovered beside her with a bloody rolling pin, the case turns on a clash between the town’s trust in Hannah and a newcomer detective’s view of the evidence. Maddy, a small-town baker and former social-media personality, investigates Dorothy’s past with help from her Baker Street Irregulars. Wedding preparations, bakery life, and a cozy-mystery inquiry share the stage in this culinary whodunit.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans of cozy mysteries centered on amateur sleuths and small-town communities
  • Readers who enjoy culinary settings, especially bakeries and wedding celebrations
  • Those interested in mysteries involving family feuds and a local investigation

Themes

Amateur sleuthingSmall-town communityBakery and wedding preparationsFamily conflictTrust and evidence

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Book overview

Social media queen-turned-small-town baker Maddy Montgomery, her feisty friends, and her faithful English mastiff know you have to break a few eggs to solve a murder. . .

As Maddy's wedding day approaches, friends and family descend on the little town of New Bison, Michigan, to celebrate--so much so that Maddy wonders if there might be another happily-ever-after in store for her widowed father and innkeeper Mrs. Law. Unfortunately, she also has to deal with an unhappy couple: feuding cousins Hannah and Dorothy, who haven't spoken in decades. Maddy can only hope the spectacular wedding cake crafted by her head baker doesn't wind up as ammunition in a food fight.

But she doesn't have to wait long for a wedding disaster to strike. When the imperious Dorothy crashes the rehearsal dinner--with several uninvited guests in tow--and starts battering everyone with constant complaints, the drama reaches reality-show levels. And the next day, Dorothy is dead . . . with Hannah standing over the body, bloody rolling pin in hand.

Nobody in town believes Miss Hannah could commit murder. But a detective newly relocated from New York doesn't know the sweet, memory-challenged Hannah the way the locals do--and the evidence seems open-and-shut as an oven. Now, with her sous-sleuths the Baker Street Irregulars, the bride-to-be is busy digging into Dorothy's past to catch a killer before she cuts the cake . . .
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