With her assistant, Pixie, picking up more responsibility around the shop, Tricia Miles suddenly has a lot more time on her hands. Tricia decides to join the local animal-rescue board and enter the Great Stoneham Bake-Off, but neither pans out as smoothly as she’d hoped.
Balancing a bake-off that’s heating up with a frosty reception from the board, Tricia stops by Joyce Whitman’s romance bookstore looking for a book to get her fired up. She stumbles on something hot, but it’s an argument between Joyce and her neighbor Vera Olson instead of a steamy read. When Vera turns up dead in Joyce’s garden hours later, Tricia has to wonder—could Joyce be the killer? Or is the culprit still lurking in town?
One thing is for sure, someone in Stoneham is stirring up something more sinister than sweet. Tricia is determined to win the cutthroat cooking contest, but first she will have to make sure no one else is in danger of getting burned....[summary via Amazon]
It's time to visit Stoneham again in Lorna Barrett's latest mystery, A Killer Edition.
Tricia is feeling a little lost. Her assistant manager, Pixie, has everything under control at her shop, Haven't Got a Clue, so Tricia is trying to fill her time. Unfortunately the frosty reception she receives when she tries to join the board for a local animal shelter, isn't making her feel any better. However, life is about to get interesting again when she uncovers a dead body and enters a local baking contest.
The Booktown Mysteries is the only series that I've stayed up to date with over the last 10 years of reading cozy mysteries. I absolutely love the release of every new addition to the series, and look forward to visiting Stoneham again and again!
The mystery itself is top-notch. While I had a feeling the cause of the murder, I was completely surprised when the murderer was unveiled. I love that Lorna Barrett always keeps me on my toes with a good mystery to unravel!
More than the mystery, I love the development of not just the relationships but life in Stoneham. A Killer Edition is the 13th book in the series and a lot has happened in Stoneham over the last 13 books. I really feel that Lorna Barrett develops this series at a realistic pace. Friendships and relationships go up and down, as life takes its course, and you can see this in this series. I love seeing the development in the relationship between Tricia and her sister, Angelica. They have grown closer, but there is still some rivalry there, as evidenced by each of them wanting to win the Bake-Off!
A Killer Edition is another fantastic instalment in this series and I absolutely can't wait for the next one!
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