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Sugar Plum Poisoned

Sugar Plum Poisoned, October 2023
Cupcake Bakery Mystery #15
by Jenn McKinlay

Berkley
Featuring: Shelby Vaughn; Mel; Angie
304 pages
ISBN: 0593549120
EAN: 9780593549124
Kindle: B0BRMFGYX8
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"A Holiday Treat"

Fresh Fiction Review

Sugar Plum Poisoned
Jenn McKinlay

Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel
Posted October 10, 2023

Mystery Cozy | Mystery Culinary | Holiday

The holidays are fast approaching and the bakery is busy with orders. When Angie’s friend Shelby comes to town to give a holiday concert, she begs Angie and Mel to bake cupcakes for the VIP room. Angie can’t turn her friend down, even if Mel wishes they had more time.

Angie and Mel create four signature cupcakes for the event. Tensions are running high in the music industry. Mel and Angie don’t like the way Shelby’s manager treats her. There’s something strange about him. Mel’s keeping a close eye on him – until he ends up murdered in Shelby’s dressing room.

Rumors and accusations fly faster than Santa’s reindeer. Mel’s not sure who to trust. While she wants to protect Angie and Shelby, they aren’t telling her everything. On top of the nightly concerts and the holiday special orders, Mel’s mother has asked her to host Christmas dinner this year. When Joe’s mother finds out, she decides their family should also be invited. Now Mel’s cooking dinner for thirty people and her house isn’t even decorated. Will the Christmas spirit find her?

SUGAR PLUM POISONED is the fifteenth book in the Cupcake Bakery Mystery series and like the previous books, showcases cupcake recipes. This addition to the series is full of holiday cheer, delicious cupcakes, and characters who readers love to catch up with.

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SUMMARY

It’s Christmastime, and this holiday season, things are heating up for the bakers at Fairy Tale Cupcakes, in the newest Cupcake Bakery Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay.

When up-and-coming singing sensation Shelby Vaughn arrives in town for two weeks of concert dates, she hires her old friend Angie and the rest of the bakery crew to supply cupcakes for the VIP guest lounge every night.

After overhearing Shelby in a heated argument with her manager, Mel is concerned, but she and the crew decide to make the best of their time working with the star. Just as the bakers fall into the rhythm of the job, Shelby’s manager is found dead, clutching a bit of fabric from a Santa suit and a cupcake. With the bakery crew and Shelby’s backup dancers all dressed in similar Santa costumes, it’s impossible to say who is the killer. When all suspicions lead back to Shelby, Mel and Angie stand up for their friend, determined to prove her innocence before she’s frosted for a crime she didn’t commit.


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