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FLOURLESS TO STOP HIM

Flourless to Stop Him, May 2015
Baker's Treat Mystery #3
by Nancy J. Parra

Berkley
Featuring: Toni Holmes
304 pages
ISBN: 0425252604
EAN: 9780425252604
Kindle: B00O2BKL5C
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"Can Toni keep her gluten-free bakery afloat and identify the murderer?"

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FLOURLESS TO STOP HIM
Nancy J. Parra

Reviewed by Debbie Wiley
Posted June 26, 2015

Mystery Cozy

It's a busy time of a year for any business, but even more so for a newly established bakery. Toni is slammed with all the orders she has for Christmas and she's determined to let law enforcement do their job and stay out of this murder. Unfortunately, the primary suspect is her brother, Tim, and everyone wants Toni's input on what happened. Toni knows her brother isn't a murderer... but can she find the real culprit while keeping her bakery afloat?

FLOURLESS TO STOP HIM is the third book in the Baker's Treat series and can easily be read as a standalone. However, I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to dive right into Nancy J. Parra's world and read the entire series as each book truly is a delightful treat! From the characters to the town of Oiltop itself, every aspect is enjoyable.

Toni has quickly become one of my favorite cozy mystery heroines. There is always a fine line at balancing the heroine becoming involved in too many mysteries before credibility is strained. Nancy J. Parra shows Toni struggling with letting law enforcement do their job and focusing on her own management of her bakery business and it adds a real air of believability to the overall storyline.

However, it is the quirky character of Grandma Ruth who continues to steal the show in the Baker's Treat series! I absolutely love Grandma Ruth and her antics, all the more so when you see the sweet heart hiding under her outspoken exterior. Who can't help but love Toni's large and outrageously eccentric family, even as they drive her absolutely nutty at times?

FLOURLESS TO STOP HIM is yet another stunningly good installment in the Baker's Treat series! Nancy J. Parra continues to weave together phenomenal characters, an excellent mystery, and educational information on what it means to have Celiac Disease and need gluten-free food. I love each and every moment I spend visiting with the quirky characters in Oiltop and seeing what scrumptious treats Toni is whipping up for her customers. I can't wait for the next book!

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SUMMARY

The author of Murder Gone A-Rye and Gluten for Punishment
returns to Oiltop, Kansas, where gluten-free baker Toni
Holmes has to separate the wheat from the chaff to clear
her
brother of murder…

It’s never a good time for a crisis. Toni’s busy whipping
up
gluten-free holiday treats when a murder forces her to put
baking on the back burner. A dead man has been found in
the
bathtub of a local innβ€”in a room registered to her
brother,
Tim.

With her sibling now a prime suspect in a mysterious
homicide, Toni is determined to find out who set him up.
But
she’s about to get some unwanted assistance from former
investigative journalist Grandma Ruth, who won’t let
anything slow her progress in running down a killer…

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BOOK SERIES

Baker's Treat Mystery

Gluten For Punishment
GLUTEN FOR PUNISHMENT
#1.0 β€’ May 2013
Murder Gone A-Rye
MURDER GONE A-RYE
#2.0 β€’ May 2014
Flourless to Stop Him
FLOURLESS TO STOP HIM
#3.0 β€’ May 2015

 

 

 

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