Ellery Adams serves up a mystery that’s a real peach...
Ella Mae LeFaye’s Charmed Pie Shoppe is wildly popular in Havenwood, Georgia—which is not surprising since Ella Mae can lace her baked goods with enchantments. The shop’s extraordinary success seems destined to continue when Ella Mae meets an engaged couple who hire her to handle the dessert buffet at their wedding.
But Ella Mae has a lot on her plate. She is also searching for the origin of her magical powers—and hoping to determine if the spark of attraction she feels for the handsome Hugh Dylan is authentic or just her new abilities gone awry.
Then Ella Mae discovers a high-standing member of the community dead, and a wedding guest becomes seriously ill at the event she’s catering. Now she’ll have to use all her sleuthing skills and culinary talents to prove her pies don’t contain a killer ingredient . . .
Well. Talk about your unexpected developments! have tissues on hand! Cozies should NOT make me teary dammit!!!
Excellent read. I love these characters - all of them. Even the "nemesis" seems somewhat realistic - although she needs to be slapped. The mystery in this book very much centers around Ella Mae's "world" and the newfound magic she has. A lot is revealed in this book, which I appreciate - I hate when an author strings out the 'reveals' over too many books. I guessed the bad guy - not right away, but early on. It didn't diminish the story for me at all though.
It will be interesting to see where the author takes the next book - from the ending of this book, it seems it's very possible future books could wing off into the overly fantastic. But I look forward to finding out.
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