To Have and to Kill
Piper Donovan never imagineddecorating wedding cakes could beso dangerous!A struggling actress with no immediateprospects and a recently broken engagement,Piper needs to take stock of her lifeāso she moves back home with her parents in New Jersey and steps tentatively into the family bakery...
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Piper Donovan never imagineddecorating wedding cakes could beso dangerous!A struggling actress with no immediateprospects and a recently broken engagement,Piper needs to take stock of her life—so she moves back home with her parents in New Jersey and steps tentatively into the family bakery business. Soon, she’s creating a wedding cake for a friend, the star of a daytime television drama. But someone is ruthlessly determined that this wedding will never happen.It begins with the horrific murder of the bride-to-be’s co-star—but a psychopathic wedding-crasher isn’t about to stop there. Before Piper knows it, she’s joining forces with FBI agent Jack Lombardi—a handsome neighbor with a soft spot for the inquisitive cake-maker—to sift through the suspects and find a killer. But Piper’s about to discover that it may be a lot hotter in the kitchen than she’s able to handle . . .Suspense. Romance. Family. Cake.There is something for every reader in To Have and to Kill.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780062036469 (0062036467)
Publish date: December 28th 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Series: Wedding Cake Mystery (#1)
Cozy mystery, and fine for what it is. Overly simplistic at times and occasionally too cutesy. An easy read, and relative short. This isn't my genre so I can't comment more than that, but fans of cozy mysteries may enjoy it.
Very mediocre read! Will not bother with anymore in this series!
I was a little disappointed in the book. I felt like the storyline was all over the place. There were too many possible suspects. I kept waiting for Piper and her FBI friend to get involved in the investigation like the synopsis said. Their role in it is perpheral at best and Piper actually stumb...
A fluffy first in a promising new cozy series from bestseller Clark (Dying for Mercy) introduces 27-year-old, down-on-her-luck actress Piper Donovan. After a painful breakup and too few acting gigs in Manhattan, Piper has returned home to Hillwood, N.J., where she's assisting her mother, Terri, at t...