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Also by Maymee Bell:

Batter Off Dead, December 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Cake and Punishment, November 2018
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Cake and Punishment, May 2018
Hardcover / e-Book

Cake and Punishment
Maymee Bell

Southern Cake Baker #1
Crooked Lane Books
November 2018
On Sale: November 13, 2018
336 pages
ISBN: 1683317963
EAN: 9781683317968
Kindle: B075QJM2W8
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
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Other Editions
Hardcover (May 2018)

Mystery Culinary

In the first of a delectable new Southern-set baking cozy series, Sophia Cummings, pastry chef extraordinaire, must craft the perfect cake for an old friend’s wedding while sifting through the suspects in a murder.

Bucolic Rumford, Kentucky has glowing fields of bluegrass, a fine selection of bourbons, and now a professional pastry chef. Broken-hearted Sophia Cummings has come home from New York City. She’s not there a minute before she’s charmed into making her high school friend Charlotte’s wedding cake. The kitchen at the Rumford Country Club seems perfect until Chef Emile’s body is discovered, sprawled near the stove, a cast iron skillet on the floor close by.

With one look at the shiny, new frying pan, Sophia knows it’s not Emile’s. She offers her knowledge to Sheriff Carter and her talents to Evelyn, the manager, who needs an interim chef. The mood in the country club is grim: Emile’s peppery personality had burned members and staff alike. Sophia wonders which one of them burned him?

Perfect for fans of Joanne Fluke and JoAnna Carl, Cake and Punishment—with authentic Southern recipes!—will satisfy your sweet tooth.