Cake and Punishment - Maymee Bell

Cake and Punishment

By Maymee Bell

  • Release Date: 2018-05-08
  • Genre: Cozy Mysteries
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 22 Ratings

Description

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

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


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?

Reviews

  • Cake and punishment

    5
    By Grandma Fox 85
    Nicely written book, just right for your reading pleasure without all the gory details
  • Maymee Bell’s Cake and Punishment

    4
    By Carol M Smith
    What a delicious, mouthwatering read!!! Sophia Cummings, the head pastry chef for a popular New York restaurant returns home to Rumford, Kentucky. Sophia discovered her boyfriend, Noah the chef, cheating on her and needs a break away from New York. Sophia connects with her old high school friends. One who was getting married soon and had the wedding cake baker pull out so Sophia ends up volunteering to make the cake. What she doesn’t expect is to be at the Rumford Country Club when their head chef is found dead in the club’s kitchen. Intrigue Sophia finds herself in the midst of a murder investigation plus she needs to prove the manager innocent. The characters are well defined with amazing interaction between them. The details took me right into the small Southern setting of Rumford. I felt that the characters included me into their activities. Recipes for Rev Velvet Crunchies, Surprise Puffs, Southern Skillet Apple Pie, Banana Pudding Cupcakes, Kentucky Butter Cupcakes and Kentucky Derby Pie included after the books end. I am not sure which one to try first!! There is an empty bakery in Rumford, will Sophia stay there to open her own or go back to the prestigious restaurant in New York?