In this feisty new culinary cozy mystery from Agatha and Edgar Award-nominated author Valerie Burns, social

media influencer Maddy Montgomery is adjusting to her new life after moving to small-town Michigan to run a

bakery and take care of a gigantic English mastiff—all while solving the murder of a one-time nemesis...

The small town, fish-out-of-water, baking-themed mystery for fans of Jenn McKinlay, Mia P. Manansala, Abby

Collette, Jennifer J. Chow, Danielle Arceneaux, and Joanne Fluke!

“Books, dogs and food — and a well-structured sense of fun — connect almost all of Valerie Burns’s cozy

mysteries.” — The New York Times

Thanks to Maddy’s social media savvy, Baby Cakes Bakery is becoming a huge success—so much so that

she’s attracted the attention of her former nemesis, the fiancé-stealing Brandy Denton. When Brandy blows

into New Bison like an ill wind and disrupts a vlog Maddy’s filming, their argument goes viral. After Brandy’s

body is found at Baby Cakes, Maddy instantly goes from viral sensation to murder suspect.

As Maddy is still reeling from the murder, a stranger shows up in the bakery claiming to have been a friend of

Octavia. He believes Maddy is in danger. When a second body washes up on the lake shore, it seems clear

someone’s out to kill to keep a secret—and it may have to do with her great aunt.

Maddy rallies her aunt’s friends, the Baker Street Irregulars; Sheriff April Johnson; and her veterinarian

boyfriend Michael—not to mention her English mastiff Baby—to do some digging and root out whoever’s behind

the killings . . .