Crafts and Life

After losing her job as food editor at a glossy magazine, Rosetta Sugarbaker Calloway—aka “Sugar” to friends—isn’t sweet on accepting defeat and crawling back to her gossipy southern hometown. So when she has an opportunity to launch a community cookbook business with blue-ribbon baker Dixie Spicer in peaceful St. Ignatius, Iowa, she jumps at the chance to start over from scratch . . .
 
But as Sugar assembles recipes for the local centennial celebration, it’s not long before she’s up to her oven mitts in explosive threats, too-hot-to-handle scandals, and a dead body belonging to the moody matriarch of the town’s first family. With suspicions running wild, Sugar and Spice must solve the murder before someone innocent takes the heat—and the real culprit gathers enough ingredients to strike again . . .

I finally got around to reading the first in this series and it was great to see how it all started off! In this one Sugar and Dixie have joined forces and they are planning their first Community Cookbook, for the St Ignatius Founder's Day celebrations, but problems arise when two arch rivals, Elsie Farmer and Bertie Spicer, start fighting as they have both entered their scone recipe for consideration in the cookbook.  Sugar has to calm things down and so she arranges to go and meet with Elsie to discuss things, the only problem is that Elsie won't be fighting or speaking ever again as she is dead as a doornail in the back garden!  The other problem is that Bertie has gone missing and she is "a person of interest" in the investigation into Elsie's death.  With Bertie being Dixie Spicer's aunt Sugar and Spice start looking into things, but are they going to land themselves in hot water or will everything be perfectly baked?