Synopses & Reviews
Can a pastry chef be too sweet?
Rita Lucero, owner of New Orleans cake shop Zydeco Cakes, cant seem to stop saying yes.” Even though things at the bakery are busy, Rita finds herself accepting a seat on the local small business alliancea group full of colorful characters like Chopper Shop owner Moose Hazen and his wife, Destiny, whose personal life is messier than a cake someone left out in the rain.
On the street following a heated alliance meeting, Moose pulls Rita out of the path of a speeding van. Shaken and bruised, Rita notices the next day that her prescribed pain killers are missing. When she discovers Destinys body in the couples shop, the stolen pill bottle in her lifeless hand only adds another layer to her mysterious death. But getting the frosty NOPD detective to stop focusing on Rita and look for Destinys real killer will be anything but a cakewalk
INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES!
Review
“A decadent new series with a Big Easy attitude.”--Paige Shelton, national bestselling author of
A Killer Maize
“A mouth-watering new series!”--Sheila Connolly, national bestselling author of Bitter Harvest
Synopsis
Pastry chef Rita Lucero's Mardi Gras party turns funereal when one of her guests is found dead after a public fight with her uncle-leaving Rita no choice but to find the real killer and clear her uncle's name...
Synopsis
Blind man’s bluff With business going stale at Zydeco Cakes, Rita Lucero has plenty to worry about. But when the blind trumpet player Old Dog Leg Magee asks for a favor, she can’t say no. His brother Monroe disappeared forty years ago, and now someone has shown up claiming to be him. Old Dog Leg needs Rita to be his eyes—and see if it’s really his brother. The Twisted Palms Bed and Breakfast is full of unsavory characters, Monroe included. Posing as newlyweds, Rita and her friend Gabriel check in, only to discover that Monroe’s true identity isn’t the only mystery they’ll have to solve. When another guest at the Twisted Palms turns up dead, it seems the mysterious man might also be a murderer...
About the Author
Jacklyn Brady is the author of the previous New Orleans-set Piece of Cake Mysteries, A Sheetcake Named Desire, Cake on a Hot Tin Roof, and Arsenic and Old Cake.