Author's guest post at my blog:
https://bookfare.blogspot.com/2018/12/foodfic-please-welcome-gayle-trent.html

Daphne Martin's got a good life, doing at a job she loves decorating cakes, spending time with her family, and having fun with her boyfriend Ben Jacobs. She's excited about taking a cake decoration class from Jordan Richards a famous TV Chef. Then things start to fall apart when she least expects them to. Ben's thinking about changing jobs and moving to Kentucky to head up a magazine with his former college sweetheart. He's torn about what to do and Daphne's devastated. Then sometime after the first decorating class and the second class chef Richards is murdered, and who should find his body but none other than Daphne.

The First Annual Brea Ridge Taste Bud Temptation Cake and Confenctionary Arts Exhibit and Competition is in town and Daphne's got a couple of items entered, but she's having a hard time getting excited about the competition when there's been a murder in town, Her sister Violet comes to the competition with Leslie, her niece, who also has an entry in the children's competition and they talk Daphne into going through with the competition. While the competition continues and the murder investigation kicks up into high gear, Daphne starts to look in the other people in the class. Daphne starts to wonder who would want to see chef Richards dead, unfortunately the closer she gets to finding the murderer, the danger starts to increase for all of those involved.

This story is a well written mystery that will keep you guessing until the end, where the story ties itself up without feeling rushed. The characters are fun, interesting, and likeable. Watching Daphne and Ben struggling with their feelings of moving their relationship forward makes it seem like you're going through it with your close friends.
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Daphne Martin's got a good life, doing at a job she loves decorating cakes, spending time with her family, and having fun with her boyfriend Ben Jacobs. She's excited about taking a cake decoration class from Jordan Richards a famous TV Chef. Then things start to fall apart when she least expects them to. Ben's thinking about changing jobs and moving to Kentucky to head up a magazine with his former college sweetheart. He's torn about what to do and Daphne's devastated. Then sometime after the first decorating class and the second class chef Richards is murdered, and who should find his body but none other than Daphne.

The First Annual Brea Ridge Taste Bud Temptation Cake and Confenctionary Arts Exhibit and Competition is in town and Daphne's got a couple of items entered, but she's having a hard time getting excited about the competition when there's been a murder in town, Her sister Violet comes to the competition with Leslie, her niece, who also has an entry in the children's competition and they talk Daphne into going through with the competition. While the competition continues and the murder investigation kicks up into high gear, Daphne starts to look in the other people in the class. Daphne starts to wonder who would want to see chef Richards dead, unfortunately the closer she gets to finding the murderer, the danger starts to increase for all of those involved.

This story is a well written mystery that will keep you guessing until the end, where the story ties itself up without feeling rushed. The characters are fun, interesting, and likeable. Watching Daphne and Ben struggling with their feelings of moving their relationship forward makes it seem like you're going through it with your close friends.
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