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Book Review
Reviewed: 05 February 2025

Murder is a Piece of Cake

by: Valerie Burns

Baker Street Mystery - Book 2

  • Rating: full starfull starfull starstar outlinestar outline (3/5)

No better weapon than a cast iron skillet

And that is not a spoiler. Maddy is settling into her new life and recovering from the events in the last murder and fire. This book we learn more about the characters. We also see how their relationships have grown. I wish for a bit more baking and less dog drool, but that’s me. 

I will admit I am looking forward to Book 3 for two reasons, Maddy’s dad arrives and where things end up with April. 

This was a fun and easy read.

Happy Reading!

Release Date: 27-June-2023

Plot Summary

With small town New Bison’s Spring Baking Festival just around the corner, the pressure is on Maddy to continue her late Great Aunt Octavia’s legacy. That means scoring the top prize and transforming Baby Cakes into Southwestern Michigan’s must-visit bakery, even though her inexperience in the kitchen brings nightmares of humiliating tagged photos and scathing one-star reviews.

There’s another reason for lost beauty sleep. A second bakery is opening in town under the ownership of CJ Davenport, a shrewd investor with a reputation for sabotaging anyone who gets in his way. And savvy, flashy Maddy tops his list. It’s a sticky spot to be in—more so when Davenport turns up dead with a Baby Cakes’s knife stuck in his back.

Maddy’s whole life just went from #thriving to barely surviving. Now, supported by the crafty Baker Street Irregulars and her new boyfriend, she must find the courage to face off against a killer who could very well get her name trending for the first and last time . . .