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Also by Gayle Trent:

The Flame, April 2016
Paperback / e-Book
Perp and Circumstance, October 2015
e-Book
Killer Wedding Cake, July 2015
e-Book
Soup...Er...Myrtle!, June 2014
e-Book
Claus of Death, December 2013
e-Book
Battered To Death, October 2013
Paperback / e-Book
When Good Bras Go Bad, December 2012
e-Book
Killer Sweet Tooth, October 2011
Paperback
Murder Takes The Cake, April 2011
Paperback / e-Book
Dead Pan, November 2009
Paperback
Murder Takes The Cake, October 2008
Paperback
Between A Clutch And A Hard Place, November 2004
Paperback / e-Book

BATTERED TO DEATH
By: Gayle Trent

Pocket Paraview
October 2013
On Sale: September 24, 2013
336 pages
ISBN: 1476706573
EAN: 9781476706573
Kindle: 1476706573
Paperback / e-Book
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Mystery | Mystery Culinary

A RECIPE FOR MURDER

Life is sweet for Daphne Martin right now, from her flourishing cake-decorating business to a rekindled romance with her high school boyfriend, Ben. All that’s about to change, courtesy of famously foul-mouthed celebrity chef Jordan Richards. The TV star has come to Brea Ridge, Virginia, for the town’s lavish cake competition, but he won’t be leaving under his own steam. After his first master class, Jordan is found bludgeoned with a cake stand and drowned in some very bitter batter.

Plenty of townsfolk think the curmudgeonly confectioner had it coming, but the half-baked evidence points to Daphne as a prime suspect. With Ben mulling a new job offer—in Kentucky— Daphne is faced with a multilayered dilemma. She needs to somehow keep her boyfriend, win the cake competition, and sift out the real culprit . . . before the killer serves up another victim.