Deadly Delights, Laura Jensen Walker
Deadly Delights, Laura Jensen Walker
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Deadly Delights

Author: Laura Jensen Walker

Narrator: Caroline Hewitt

Unabridged: 8 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/08/2021


Synopsis

August in Lake Potawatomi, Wisconsin, always means one thing: the annual baking contest. Picture The Great British Baking Show, writ Midwestern. It's a huge draw for the upper crust of Wisconsin pastry aficionados. And, of course, bon vivant baker-turned-mystery writer Teddie St. John has a pie in the ring. The white vinyl baking tent boasts an array of folding tables housing each entrant's daily baked good. And at one of those tables sits the corpse of the head judge, his face half-buried in a delectable coconut cream pie. The body in question belonged to notorious Les Morris. Les may have been getting on in years, but he hadn't outgrown his well-earned reputation for lechery. Now, Les is no more. But unfortunately, by his side lies Teddie's distinctive embossed rolling pin... covered with blood. It's out of the baking pan, into the oven. A life sentence behind a lattice of prison bars and a tangle of rhu-barbed wire will never do, and Teddie's quick wit and bohemian charm won't save her from the long spatula of the law. So, with the help of her friends, she'll concoct a recipe to clear her name—if the real killer doesn't ice her first.

About Laura Jensen Walker

Laura Jensen Walker has loved mysteries ever since she read Trixie Belden in the fourth grade in her Danish-founded hometown of Racine, Wisconsin—America's kringle capital. A former journalist and the author of several novels and humorous nonfiction books, including Thanks for the Mammogram!, she chose, like her main character, to go flat after her second mastectomy. She lives with her Renaissance-man husband and their canine-daughter Mellie in California.

About Caroline Hewitt

Caroline Hewitt is an experienced actor and playwright who has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in television shows. Having received a degree in French from Vassar College, she went on to obtain her master's degree in acting from the American Conservatory Theater. Her love for reading has brought her into the world of audiobook narration.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tina

Thank you Netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for the ARC of this book. This was an honest review. #campnetgalley In this cozy mystery, I found everything I was looking for. A Baking competition, a murder of a judge and Teddie, a writer who loves to bake, joins in. I enjoyed all the references to food.......more