Bookish Baker Mystery #02: Deadly Delights

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In Laura Jensen Walker' s second Bookish Baker mystery, Teddie St. John enters a pie-baking contest. But her chances of winning plummet when she' s suspected of killing one of the judges!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.