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A Smoking Bun

#18 in series

by Ellie Alexander
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Another delicious installment in the Bakeshop Series set in Ashland, OR!
The mountains are calling in Ashland, Oregon, where pastry chef turned amateur sleuth, Jules Capshaw, is baking up a bevy of spiced curry buns and chai cookies for a moonlit snowshoe tour. Ramiro's family is visiting from Spain and Jules can't wait to take them up to her beloved Mount A with its charming and rustic lodge, backcountry trails, and star-filled skies that stretch for miles. Their winter wonderland adventure is nothing short of magical and the merry party opts to return to the slope the next day for the Downhill Dummy.
The annual competition is a favorite amongst snow lovers. Contestants strap makeshift dummies to skis and send them hurling down a death-defying ski jump in hopes of catching big air. The team at Torte is in the mix this year with their own replica of a tiered cake and a baker who closely resembles their fearless leader. It's a fun and festive atmosphere as dummies sail past the crowd to huge cheers and applause. Until one of the dummies takes a deadly detour and lands atop Fitz Baskin.
Fitz is a guide on the mountain and his icy dealings have made for frosty relationships with everyone he encounters. Suddenly there are more suspects than snowdrifts as Jules dives into the investigation. She unearths a web of secrets and motives that threaten to shake the rustic mountain lodge to its core. Can she catch the killer before they strike again, or will the truth be buried forever under fluffy layers of fresh snow?

  • Creators

  • Series

    Bakeshop Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    February 20, 2024

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781250854438

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781250854438
      • File size: 2633 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      January 1, 2024
      A weird murder that stuns residents of Ashland, Oregon, threatens to blight the coming New Year's celebration. Ashland is popular with residents and tourists alike for its natural beauty and its vaunted Shakespeare Festival. Juliet Capshaw Montague, the owner of Torte, a local bakeshop, is busy dealing with in-laws visiting from Spain. The first excursion she has planned, a nighttime snowshoe trip high on the ski mountain, doesn't turn out quite the way she pictured. Their guide, Hero, is professional and cautious, but the outing is rudely interrupted by another guide, Fitz, a rule-breaking bully who shoves past them with two ladies, all on cross-country skis. The trio quickly get into trouble when Fitz takes his charges off the trail, and Hero has to call the ski patrol to rescue them. That minor bump in the road is nothing compared to what happens at the yearly downhill dummy contest, where fantastical dummies are sent down a slope to face spectacular wipeouts. Fitz, who seems to have been in the wrong place, is impaled by pieces of the last dummy, and Kendall Hankwitz, whose family owns the resort, insists that his death is murder. Jules has worked with her detective stepfather, known as the Professor, before. Despite a busy schedule entertaining her in-laws and furiously cooking and baking for holiday parties, she and her pals in crime-solving step up to help. Fitz was certainly disliked, but some of the revelations they uncover about the resort may provide even stronger motives for murder. A many-faceted mystery often overwhelmed by delightfully detailed descriptions of culinary prep sure to delight foodies.

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    • Booklist

      February 9, 2024
      Bakery owner Juliet ""Jules"" Capshaw is looking forward to hosting her stepson's mother, stepfather, and sister in cozy Elizabethan-themed Ashland, Oregon, just after Christmas. At the local ski lodge, she witnesses the disagreeable Fitz Baskin killed by an entry in the downhill dummy competition they attend. It looks like a horrible accident until the lodge owner Kendall accuses Shawn, a good friend of Andy, one of of Jules' employees, of prematurely cutting the wire. Jules, at Andy's request, agrees to investigate, assisted by her good friend Lance, and the two uncover multiple suspects. The lovingly described winter setting, both in town and at the ski lodge, the close-knit group of family and friends, the warm details of baking and running a bakeshop framing the story, and delicious-sounding recipes add up to a satisfying cozy strongly reminiscent of those by Diane Mott Davidson and Joanne Fluke.

      COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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