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Vincent van Dough focaccia is being touted on Instagram as the best thing since sliced bread. By strategically placing chives, olives, and yellow peppers to look like poppies and sunflowers, bakers create a mouthwatering masterpiece in the style of the great postimpressionist painter. At Yeast of Eden, where bread making has always been an art, they're baking their own version for the school district's Spring Fling.
But one person won't be tasting the Mexican bakery's latest specialty. Ambitious school board president Nessa Renchrik has been murdered. Like the rest of this close-knit community, Ivy is shocked. But she's just as surprised to discover her beau—restaurateur Miguel Baptista—had his own fling with Nessa back in the day and now the police have this half-baked notion he might have killed her. It's up to Ivy, her boss Olaya Solis, and eighty-six-years-young Penelope Branford to separate the wheat from the chaff to determine who the real culprit is . . .
INCLUDES RECIPES!
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April 27, 2021 -
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- ISBN: 9781496733573
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- ISBN: 9781496733573
- File size: 1431 KB
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- English
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April 19, 2021
In the latest Bread Shop mystery (the sixth in the series), set in a Northern California seaside town, Ivy Culpepper and her friends dig into the murder of the school-board president. The prime suspect, according to the police, is Miguel Bapista, Ivy's boyfriend. Ivy, a photographer and employee of Yeast of Eden bakery, is a perfect lead for a cozy series: engaging and kind but with a fierce streak of independence and an unshakable drive to find the truth. She's quite a charming lady, and Archer's books about her are charming, too--they're gently told stories with good, solid mysteries as their centerpieces. As in most cozies, the sense of real danger is muted, and there is an understanding on the part of the reader that everything will work out happily in the end. But it's the journey, not the destination, that makes this novel so much fun. Recommend to readers of Joanne Fluke and Diane Mott Davidson.COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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