Burned to a Crisp

Cookies & Chance Mysteries, Book 3

De: Catherine Bruns

Narrado por: Siobhan O'Day

From USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bruns comes the next sinfully delicious Cookies & Chance Mystery...

Just when things appear to be going well for baker and sometime sleuth, Sally Muccio, life turns up the heat again.

It’s summertime, and the living is easy for the Muccio clan. Sal’s wedding to her beloved fiancé is rapidly approaching, Mom’s won a beauty contest, and sister Gianna is now a licensed public defender. But when the bakery Sal’s worked so hard for goes up in smoke—along with her dreams!—she’s not sure how much more she can stand. Even worse, the man found dead in the bakery’s back room is none other than Gianna’s latest client, Bernardo Napoli. The dough really hits the fan for Sal and Josie when they’re forced to temporarily relocate their bakery to the crazy Muccio home. Trouble is quickly stirred up as the best friend team must now contend with Sal’s father and his new mortuary business “undertakings,” a middle aged mother parading around customers in bikinis, and an Italian family hell bent on revenge. For Sal, several questions demand answers. Where has Gianna disappeared to? What role did she play in Bernardo’s death? What secret is Sal’s fiancé hiding from her? Sal is determined to find answers...before she gets burned once again!

**Recipes Included!**

The Cookies & Chance Mysteries:

Tastes Like Murder (book #1)

Baked to Death (book #2)

Burned to a Crisp (book #3)

Frosted With Revenge (book #4)

Silenced by Sugar (book #5)

Crumbled to Pieces (book #6)

Sprinkled in Malice (book #7)

Ginger Snapped to Death (book #8)

Icing on the Casket (book #9)

Knee Deep in Dough (book #10)

Dessert is the Bomb (book #11)

Seasoned with Murder (book #12)

Bake, Batter, and Roll (book #13)

Crimes and Confections (book #14)

Death Whisk (book #15)

©2016 Gemma Halliday Publishing (P)2018 Catherine Bruns

Another great book in the series.

Things were looking up for Sally Muccio. Her business was going great and soon she would marry her high school sweetheart, Mike. Her family is doing well too. Her sister is officially a lawyer and her mother is participating in a beauty pageant of all things. But things take a turn when she find out her bakery is on fire. They rush to the bakery only to find out that not only is the bakery on fire, but there is a body in the building. Sal is terrified it's her sister Gianna who rents the apartment above the bakery. They soon find out it's Gianna client, Bernardo Napoli and that Gianna is missing. The police assume Gianna is the killer, so Sal has to find her first. Josie and Sal also reopen their business in their parents house, but then have to contend with her quirky parents - her dad's mortuary "business" and her mom parading around in her outfits for the pageant, including and itsy bitsy bikini. And to make matters worse she doesn't even have Mike to support her because he's out working late most nights trying to get a job done.
I love this book. It was full of action and several twists that I didn't see coming. Loved the performance too. Another great book in the series.