Have you ever needed a Hot Flash Fudge Sundae or a Down
in the Dumps Apple Cake? If so, Winnie Johnson has just
the recipe for you! Winnie is closing her bakery downtown
in Silver Lake because the rent is getting too high. She
recently inherited a 1960 Cadillac Miller-Meteor
ambulance and a cat named Lovey from a deceased friend.
With nowhere to use her culinary skills, Winnie uses her
creative side, and The Emergency Dessert Squad comes to
life. She and her only employee, Renee, develop a
business plan and come up with some very creative names
for her desserts.
Winnie lives on Serenity Lane, where many older people
have also made their home. She likes old people and looks
after her neighbors, who are also her best friends. When
she takes a peach pie across the street to Brad, she
finds him dead in his kitchen, smothered with a pillow
over his face. The police have no leads, so Winnie takes
it upon herself to find Brad's killer. With a new
business to get off the ground and a murder investigation
to explore, Winnie has little time for romance, but
romance finds its way to her in a most unexpected twist.
ÉCLAIR AND PRESENT DANGER is a charming cozy mystery that
will have you laughing (and marveling) at the dessert
names Winnie comes up with. There's a dessert for every
emotional emergency or celebration in your life. And if
she doesn't already have a dessert to fit, Winnie will
create one. Laura Bradford's characters are a quirky,
eccentric lot, but fit together to make this a delightful
story that will keep you turning pages to see what
happens next. Several unusual turns and twists in the
plot make an exciting storyline to follow. ÉCLAIR AND
PRESENT DANGER is the first book in a new series by Ms.
Bradford's An Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery. Some of
Winnie's recipes are included at the end for an extra
bonus. If this is your genre, do not miss this very
entertaining story.
The first book in the delicious new Emergency Dessert
Squad Mystery series from national bestselling author Laura
Bradford.
With her rent rising faster than her pie crust, bakery owner
Winnie Johnson had hoped to be rescued by an inheritance
from her wealthy friend and neighbor Gertrude Redenbacher.
Instead all she inherits is the widow’s hostile hissing
tabby, Lovey, and a vintage ambulance, restored by
Gertrude’s late husband. As her dream crumbles, Winnie makes
her final delivery—a peach pie to an elderly widower. But
she finds Bart Wagner lying on his kitchen floor, smothered
by a pillow.
To comfort her frightened and grieving neighbors, Winnie
comes to the rescue with her baked goods—and an idea is
born: dessert delivery via her ambulance and a new business
called the Emergency Dessert Squad. When she’s not speeding
to the scenes of dessert emergencies, Winnie is also racing
to track down Bart’s killer—before she needs to call a real
ambulance for the next victim...
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