Crafts and Life

Spring has officially arrived, and while the weather outside may still be frightful, Sally Muccio is feeling especially delightful as she prepares a homemade family dinner in honor of her husband’s birthday. Sal’s determined to make it an unforgettable night for Mike and even includes homemade fortune cookies like the ones her bakery serves, with messages personalized for each guest.

The evening is memorable, but not as Sal had hoped, when Mike and a family friend find themselves in the middle of an armed robbery…and only one will make it out alive. It’s just the beginning of more grief for Sal, who soon discovers the robbery is related to a scheme that spells financial ruin for her family. Add in her morbid father’s book signing at the bakery complete with coffin shaped cookies, a sister who won’t stop eating them, and an accidental gig at a local strip club, and Sal once again finds herself in deep dough. Only this time, there may not be a way out…

Catherine Bruns has pulled out all the stops with this book in the series, within the first few pages you are gasping and it doesn't stop there!

Sally is making a family dinner, mainly for her husband Mike's birthday but also because her sister Gianna is due to give birth in the next few weeks and so this is a chance to get everyone together before that happens.  She is in the process of finishing a few bits off when she realises she needs a final ingredient and asks Mike to get it on the way home.  When he hasn't arrived she starts to get a little worried, then VERY worried when she hears of a shooting at the store he will have gone to.  At first the thought is that Mike is dead, but "luckily" he was only wounded, it was his employee Trevor who was killed.

A few days later they discover he wasn't quite the model employee they thought, and so that needs sorting out, add in Sally's father doing a book signing (and wanting Coffin Cookies for it!), her mother modeling skimpy wake wear (!) and Gianna going into labour a couple of weeks early and Sally has a lot on her plate, but she and Josie can cope with the kitchen and the sleuthing and so they do!