Wedding Cake Crumble by Jenn McKinlay – a Review

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Description:
With Angie and Tate’s wedding just around the corner, it’s a happy–but very busy–time for Mel. Not only is she doing double duty as both the maid of honor and best man, but her bakery, Fairy Tale Cupcakes, has just been hired to provide cupcakes for a famous author’s book signing. But when the author turns up dead, it’s just the start of a murder mystery that Mel must solve.

Review:

Wedding Cake Crumble by Jenn McKinlay is the 10^th book in her Cupcake Bakery Mystery series.  This was my first book in reading this series, as I have read McKinlay’s Bluff Point series .  Though the characters are recurring, it wasn’t too difficult to meet the main characters and the small town they all live in.

Mel and Angie are our heroines, and best friends who own Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery.  In Wedding Cake Crumble, Mel and Angie are busy preparing for Angie’s wedding to Tate, and when they go visit their friend Blaise, who is the photographer, they find him dead.  Soon they will learn that two other murders have taken place recently, all being vendors for Angie’s wedding.   When they have to deliver cupcakes for a book signing of a local author, Mel will suspect that Angie’s wedding is not the intended target, instead it is the author, who also used the same vendors.  When the author, who wrote a negative book about the town residents, is attacked, one of their friends becomes the suspect and Mel will focus on helping her friend, while she also helps Angie with the preparations of the wedding.   When the author dies, Mel is determined to read the book, and find the culprit who is committing these murders.

We get to meet all the regulars of this series, and they were very likable, from Joe, Mel’s fiancée, Uncle Stan, Cassie, Oz, Marty, Angie and Mel’s family to name a few.  The wedding preparation and the actual wedding were nicely done, giving us a nice glimpse at the closeness of the family and friends in this town. Angie and Tate made a great couple, as did Mel and Joe, who I expect will be tying the knot perhaps in the next book.

What follows is a nice mystery, with Mel putting herself in danger, as she comes close to solving the murders, with some surprises along the way.  I enjoyed this lighthearted story, with very nice characters, small town atmosphere and a good mystery.  If you enjoy a simple murder mysteries, sweet leading characters , wonderful  small town, then you should be reading this series.

Reviewed by Barb

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