A Cupcake Bakery Mystery Bundle, Books 7-9

Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series

De: Jenn McKinlay

Narrado por: Susan Boyce

This bundle includes books seven, eight, and nine of the Cupcake Bakery Mystery series.

Book 7: Dark Chocolate Demise

Fun turns to fright during the Old Town Zombie Walk when Mel finds a real dead body in a prop casket outside of the bakery’s truck. Knowing that Joe, Angie’s brother and Mel’s former flame, has been working on a dangerous mob case, Mel worries that the murder is a hit gone wrong and that someone near and dear was the real target. To keep her friends from winding up six feet under, Mel will do whatever it takes to find a killer—no matter how scary things get…

Book 8: Vanilla Beaned

Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are taking a gamble by opening their first franchise of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes Bakery, so where better to hit the jackpot than in Vegas? Business manager Tate Harper has lined up a meeting with Holly Hartzmark, a former showgirl who’s looking to bring their sweet treats to Sin City. But with a murderous mischief maker on the loose, the odds are stacking up against a happy ending for Mel and her friends…

Book 9: Caramel Crush

Love is in the air as Angie prepares for her wedding, but Mel is preparing for a breakup. Her old friend, Diane Earnest, is dumping her fiancé after discovering he’s only marrying her for her money. She wants Mel to personally deliver a batch of breakup cupcakes to the louse and give her a play-by-play of his reaction. When Mel tracks the man down, the look on his face isn’t the reaction she was expecting: he’s dead.

©2024 Jenn McKinlay (P)2024 Dreamscape Media

Love it!

Loved it all! Ready for everyone to get married already! Great murder mysteries and romance mixed together! I'm hooked!

I love this series

This is a great series. Warm hearted cozy mystery. I can't wait to listen to rest of them. Narrator does an excellent job with characters and the plots are always fun, warm hearted, with good twists and turns.

Riveting

Love the twist and turns of this sweet murder mystery series! The narrator captures the different characters

Light fun with some glaring issues

These books have been mostly fun and lighthearted and while I can usually tell who the murderer will be before the murder is even committed, I like the characters and dialogue enough that it doesn’t often bother me. But I’m starting to really lose my patience with how foolish the main character tends to be over and over again, and there’s a book in this batch that had a plot line which I thought was handled REALLY badly.

SPOILERS BELOW:
Mel recounts getting roofied and almost raped at a party, and her thoughts are full of self-blame, self-loathing, and shame. I could understand if this was a character choice that the author didn’t actually endorse IF someone contradicted her, and maybe eventually she voices those thoughts and they will! But for now it came across as really victim blamey, and her thinking how Joe may not want to marry “the type of girl who would let herself get into a situation like that” was really awful to read.

main character is an idiot

I have read this series up to book 8, because of the interesting supporting characters. Especially Marty, that has good common sense, and is funny. The problem is the main character Mel is an idiot. She is just childish, immature and has a large sense of entitlement/priviledge. She thinks she can go anywhere, ask anything and do what ever she wants without any accountability. And, of course there are always a gang of men that save her. She can't do anything on her own , except get into trouble.
This book should be a "fantasy", because I can't believe that there is a man..or 3 that find this idiot so amazing , they keep letting her behave like a child and get into trouble, but somehow they find her attractive?!? I really hate that she keeps calling the bakery "hers", when Tate financed it and everyone else runs it, as she is always out "sluething". She is always fighting with her best friends, the stupid fighting with Joe and when she asks the killer if they are guilty...she gets a confession..Wow. Enough is enough, I can only hope that finally one of these killers get Mel. If she was out of the series it would be so much better.
The narrator is really good, but I wish she had a better book to read.
I think this is the second series I read by this author, that I thought the female lead was so stupid I had to stop reading. I think this author has just never met smart, logical and educated women, so she can't write one in her novels. I am so glad it was on an 87% sale, but that is the only good thing about this book

So boring!!

This book was so boring. I skipped 90% of it. So much repetitive issues from previous books, so much repetitive arguing in this book. It was a bunch of nothing that got nowhere. If this was the first book, I would never have read the second. Not sure I’m going to read anymore at this point.