Dough or Die (A Bread Shop Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
5th in Series
Publisher: Kensington (August 25, 2020)
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Synopsis
Known for its mouthwatering traditional breads, the Yeast of Eden bakery has gained fame across Northern California’s coast. Now the shop is bound for Reality TV—but a murder may kill its reputation . . .
People come to the beach town of Santa Sofia as much for the healing properties of Yeast of Eden’s breads as for a vacation getaway. And now a cable food channel has selected the bakery as a featured culinary delight for a new show. Baking apprentice Ivy Culpepper is excited as the crew arrives, ready to capture all the ins and outs of the renowned bread shop. But instead they capture something much harder to stomach: the attempted murdered of the show’s cameraman just outside Yeast of Eden . . .
With no motive and no clues, and the town craving answers, it will be up to Ivy to sift through the evidence to find the truth. But she’ll have to move quickly before someone else is targeted or the wrong person gets the heat—and the business collapses like a deflated soufflé, right before her eyes.
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Character Guest Post
Olaya Solis
The American Dream—it is a real thing. For me, anyway. Opening Yeast of Eden and baking my traditional bread, infusing that bread with herbs and qualities that bring people hope or love or forgiveness, or whatever else they may need is a bonus. I never expected the bread shop to become as well known as it has. It rivals La Brea and Nancy Silverton, at least according to my biggest fans.
When the television people came to me, asking to feature Yeast of Eden on a reality show about the best bakeries across America, I was not certain it was the right thing to do. You see, the women in my Bread for Life program would be featured. Each of them has their own story to tell. They each have their cultures, their traditions, and the bread recipes they have carried with them through the years, and sometimes through generations. But Ivy, who has become my right hand at the bread shop, and who has also become like a daughter to me, thought the Bread for Life women should make up their own minds. In the end, Zula, Claire, Esmerelda, and Amelie decided they wanted to do it. They would share their stories on TV through their bread.
Little did they—or any of us—know that a murder would happen. Dios mio, it has been a terrible thing. The experience will either bring us together or tear us apart. Ivy has a gift for sleuthing. She will do what she can to figure things out before one of us is blamed for the murder. I know she will.
The American Dream, it turns out, has challenges along the way.
About the Author
Winnie Archer is the pseudonym of Melissa Bourbon.
Melissa Bourbon Ramirez is the national bestselling author of seventeen mystery books, including the Lola Cruz Mysteries, A Magical Dressmaking Mystery series, and the Bread Shop Mysteries, written as Winnie Archer. She is a former middle school English teacher who gave up the classroom in order to live in her imagination full time. Melissa, a California native who has lived in Texas and Colorado, now calls the southeast home. She hikes, practices yoga, cooks, and is slowly but surely discovering all the great restaurants in the Carolinas. Since four of her five amazing kids are living their lives, scattered throughout the country, her dogs, Bean, the pug, Dobby, the chug, and Jasper, a cattle dog/lab keep her company while she writes. Melissa lives in North Carolina with her educator husband, Carlos, and their youngest son. She is beyond fortunate to be living the life of her dreams.
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