For the Fairy Tale Cupcake crew, wedding bells turn to death knells in this latest mystery in the New York Times bestselling series.With Angie and Tate’s wedding just around the corner, it’s a happy time for Melanie Cooper and the bakery crew. Not only are they finessing the last minute details of the big day, but their bakery, Fairy Tale Cupcakes, has just been hired to bake cupcakes for the … bake cupcakes for the blockbuster book signing of a controversial author who wrote a steamy bestseller filled with juicy local gossip.
But one by one, the people Angie has hired to work at the wedding begin turning up dead. As the body count rises, the bestselling author is the next to bite the dust. Mel quickly realizes she needs to figure out how the murders are connected and why–before the killer brings the entire cupcake crew crumbling down. After all, Angie and Tate deserve their sweet happily ever after.
INCLUDES SCRUMPTIOUS RECIPES!
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This is number ten in The Cupcake Bakery Mystery series. While you do not have to read the series in order to enjoy the mystery story line of this book, you do have to read the series in order for the awesome backstory. I am so excited that Tate and Angie are finally getting married because these two are made for each other and I have been invested in their romance from book one. I can also say the same for Joe and Mel, after much drama, om again off again, I am excited that these two are together again as well! Unfortunately murder is surrounding these happy nuptials and once again Angie and Mel are right in the middle of solving the murders. Blaise, Tate’s childhood friend is found strangled and Tate is left devastated, then two more murders follow. Enter in Cassie, a bookseller and her author client Elise Penworthy who seems to be in the thick of things regarding the murders because Elise wrote a tell all bestseller about her neighborhood and ex-husband!
I adore the quirky characters like Marty the millionaire octogenarian who works in the bakery for fun and Oz, another employee. Peanut the puppy was adorable and stole every scene that he was in! I love that teh author features dogs in a lot of her books and cats too.
Was I surprised when finally the murderer was revealed? Definitely! Jenn McKInlay delivered again in this installment of The Cupcake Bakery series. The recipes are included as well because reading this book makes you crave cupcakes!!
Wedding Cake Crumble is the tenth book in the Cupcake Bakery Mystery series in this very enjoyable series
Angie’s wedding day is just a few days away and they are busy scurrying around making sure everyone is on the same page. Their first stop is to check with the photographer, Blaise Iones. Unfortunately, they find him sitting at his desk having been strangled by someone using his camera’s strap. They head back to the bakery after having been interviewed by Mel’s Uncle Stan. When they return to the bakery, Angie gives the limo service a call and finds out that the driver that was hired has been bludgeoned to death with a tire iron. Quite naturally they are thinking that someone is out to ruin the wedding, at the very least, or someone is out to make sure there is no wedding.
Mel returns an urgent phone call from Cassie Leighton, owner of A Likely Story a small independent bookstore and indie press. Leighton needs 500 cupcakes for a book signing the next evening. The signing is for Elise Penworthy’s new book Palms, which Leighton is also publishing. Angie insists that they take the job, as it will take her mind off the terrible things that have taken place preparing for her wedding.
The next evening at the signing many of the neighbors of Penrose who are portrayed in the exposing of the neighborhood of Palms show up to express their displeasure with her book. The most vocal is the current wife of Elise’s ex. Earlier that evening Mel learns that Leighton had hired the same limo driver and photographer as Angie. When Penworthy leaves, Mel goes in search for her as she thinks that Penworthy was the one who the attacks might have been directed at and he life might be in danger. Mel goes to the bar to look for Penworthy and finds her at a table in a dark corner stabbed with the pen she used at the signing and dies a short time later.
Mel and Angie will have to sort through the many suspects to find the killer before Angie’s wedding day to make sure that she was she wasn’t the intended victim.
Another well-plotted and written story from Jenn McKinlay. Most all of the interesting and believable characters are back to help protect Mel and Angie and to help find the killer.
Delicious sounding recipes are also included with the book.
I will definitely be watching for the next book in this interesting series.