Crafts and Life

In need of some quick dough, full-time baker and sometime sleuth Sally Muccio decides to rent the vacant apartment over the bakery to a friend of her grandmother's. Allegra Fiato is nothing like Sal's darling Grandma Rosa, though. She's mean, dishonest, and harboring a deadly secret.

When the elderly woman is mowed down in a hit and run, it quickly becomes obvious this was no accident. Grandma Rosa asks for Sal's help to find the killer which involves a last minute trip to Vegas crashed by Sal's crazy parents, stolen fortune cookies, and a mysterious missing locket. To add more spice to the mix, a loved one makes a startling admission to Sal that shocks her to the very core. Suddenly, Sal's world is in danger of crumbling around her. Can she put the pieces back together in time before the killer makes her the next victim?

Not everything in the world of baking is sugar and spice, apparently treachery and death can be the dish of the day in this tale by Catherine Bruns!

With her sister having bought a house with her boyfriend, the upstairs apartment is now vacant and so she rents it to the friend of her neighbour, figuring an elderly Italian woman shouldn't be too much trouble, unfortunately Allegra Fiato is nothing like Sally's Grandma Rosa and more like the Devil incarnate! Even so Sally is stunned when the woman is run down outside her bakery, and then she meets two of Allegra's grown up children and realises that the apple hasn't fallen that far from the tree.  When her Grandmother's neighbour gets a threatening letter and is broken into, and then the apartment above the bakery is also broken into Sally realises that however much she disliked Allegra she can't let her death go unsolved and so she and Josie don their virtual deerstalkers again to find out the truth.