Hard Dough Homicide

Name: Hard Dough Homicide
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Olivia Matthews
ISBN: 9781666638684

Author: Olivia Matthews

Series: Spice Isle Bakery Mysteries #2

Narrator: Janina Edwards

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 05/23/2023

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Amateur Sleuth, Cozy, Cozy Culinary, African American & Black Fiction

Synopsis

Spice Isle Bakery owner Lyndsay Murray is always looking for new ways to grow her family’s business. But she already regrets agreeing to host the retirement dinner for local high-school principal Emily Smith. The tyrant used to be her mother's boss, and they did not get along. Six guests arrive for the celebration, but only five survive. Emily starts convulsing—right after eating the curry chicken—and dies soon after. It’s not long before the police are knocking on Spice Isle’s door, bringing the Murray family back into the heart of another murder investigation—driving away customers in the process. Lyndsay can't help but wonder if this is the end of the bakery, even though it's just begun. She must put aside her reservations about investigating another crime, because the Murrays refuse to go down without a fight.

About Olivia Matthews

Olivia Matthews is the cozy-mystery pseudonym of award-winning author Patricia Sargeant. A voracious reader, she’s been inspired by writers such as Walter Mosley, Dick Francis, and Tami Hoag, who put ordinary characters in extraordinary situations. Raised in New York City, she lives with her husband in Ohio.

About Janina Edwards

Janina Edwards is a graduate of the acting program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Based in Atlanta, she voices webinars, eLearning, and audiobooks in a variety of genres, including drama, romance, nonfiction, and mysteries.

Reviews

Goodreads review by CYIReadBooks on April 14, 2023

"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Murphy’s Law Spice Isle Bakery is in its second month of operation. Business has been doing extremely well. Even after that scandalous murder investigation the month prior. Thanks to part owner, full time baker, and amateur sleuth Lyndsay Murray. So when the......more

Goodreads review by Robin Loves on January 09, 2024

Lyndsay Murray has a lot more on her plate besides running the bakery she owns, she also plunges headfirst into solving a murder yet again. The last time her new bakery, located in Little Caribbean in Brooklyn, catered an event, a man died. This time around, she has been hired to cater a retirement......more

Goodreads review by Elyse on May 31, 2023

NetGalley ARC. When reading this, I remembered something about the first book that irked me too, it's so repetitive. And why do I care that everything in the bakery is blond wood? And Lyndsay is STILL talking about being bullied in high school. Get. Over. It. Also, this bakery serves a lot more than......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on May 04, 2023

Lyndsay Murray is back in the second Spice Isles book, Hard Dough Homicide. The unique family bakery is catering their first party, and everyone has mixed feelings about it.The celebration is a retirement party, and the guest of honor belongs to Lyndsay's mom's former boss, high school principal, Emi......more

Goodreads review by Leslie aka StoreyBook Reviews on August 04, 2023

We are back at the hip new Caribbean bakery in Brooklyn. It has been a rocky start for this little bakery, but they are making strides and filling a need for many in this neighborhood. However, this time around, Lyndsay's mom is the suspected killer when her former principal ends up dead. Of course,......more