Murder on the Menu

Its an unhappy birthday when murder crashes the partybut luckily, a sleuthing baker is in the mix . . . Shilpa Solanki has settled into life in Otters Reach, and her cakes are selling like . . . well, hotcakes. When tycoon Roy Arden turns eighty, Shilpa caters the eventbut the partys over when it turns out it was Roys last birthday. Roys daughter, Caroline, asks Shilpa to investigate, and delving into the Arden family dysfunction provides a surfeit of suspects: the much-younger second wife; the gardener-turned-son-in-law Roy never approved of; the brother he had a strained relationship with. Then Caroline turns up dead, too, and Shilpa has to burn the candle at both ends to find the culprit in this cozy culinary mystery by the author of A Slice of Murder.