The smell of burnt cake is not a good omen for Annie when she arrives at the Black Cat Cafe. But little does she know that her Aunt Leona’s cooking disaster is only the first of many problems she’ll be served in a big basket of cracked Easter eggs.
Annie quickly learns that being in charge at the Black Cat Café isn’t all chocolate-covered strawberries and carrot cakes. In addition to the variety of tasty pastries she needs to make for Easter, she stumbles on a body and what appears to be a robbery.
With money disappearing from bank accounts, snooping seniors appearing out of the blue, and clues turning up in the most unlikely places, Annie’s problems sizzle more than Leona’s hot cross buns.
Determined to help her new friends, Annie and her therapy dog land in the middle of a murder investigation. Clues pile higher than a basket of Easter eggs, all pointing to one of the seniors. Annie searches for something to keep her friend from landing in a jail cell but instead, Annie ends up right in the killer’s crosshairs.
Oh my word! Lyndsey Cole has crafted yet another brilliant book, with twists and turns to keep your interest all the way through!
This time Annie suddenly ends up running the cafe as Leona has cracked under the pressure and needs a few days off, the problem is they are catering for an Easter meal at a Senior Residential Home, but Annie and Mia step up and get things sorted, the next problem is the Easter Bunny (aka a young man called Forrest Spring in a rabbit costume) has knocked over some of the food (but they had catered for 2nds and Mia is great at portion control), they hope this is the last of the problems but as often happens they come in threes and the final one is the Easter Bunny dead in the main office!
With one of the seniors (Sylvia) looking in the police department's eyes as suspect #1 Annie, her dog Roxy (now a trained therapy dog), a couple of the other seniors and Annie's elderly friend Thelma are putting their heads together to find out what is rotten at the heart of what should be a happy retirement and find out who bumped off the bunny!
Crafts and Life 
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