Doughnuts & Deadly Schemes #BookReview #WeekendCooking

Book: Doughnuts & Deadly Schemes by Janel Gradowski
Genre: Cozy mystery
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
Publication date: May 31, 2015
Pages: 211

Source: e-book ARC from the author, a Weekend Cooking participant

Doughnuts and Deadly Schemes by Janel Gradowski

How to turn doughnuts into a wedding cake while solving a murder mystery

Summary: If you want to make someone crazy — say, the friend who is the most organized person you know — just tell her that you’re getting married. In three weeks. If that’s not enough, add in a murder at the tuxedo shop. Can Amy plan her best friend’s wedding and solve the mystery before any more local business owners are targeted?

Thoughts: This was a fun addition to Janel Gradowski’s Culinary Competition mystery series. Aside from the usual mouth-watering food descriptions, Doughnuts & Deadly Schemes also gives us beautiful dresses, stunning table displays, and exquisite wedding venues. I love the setting for this series, a small Michigan town, with lots of interesting businesses and characters who rely on them.

Appeal: Cozy mystery lovers should eat this series up! Although the stories stand on their own as mysteries, the regular characters develop from book to book, so I recommend reading the series in order:

And, then, Book #3, Doughnuts & Deadly Schemes.

Challenges: This is my second book for the Foodies Read Challenge of 2015. I need to step it up if I’m going to reach nine books this year!

Thanks, Beth Fish Reads, for hosting Weekend Cooking each week.

Comments

Doughnuts & Deadly Schemes #BookReview #WeekendCooking — 10 Comments

Beth F on September 5, 2015 at 8:32 am said:

You know how much I love a cozy culinary mystery. Adding this one to my library wish list.

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Vicki on September 5, 2015 at 11:44 am said:

Sounds like a good one!
I need to get back to reading foodie cozies.

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Claudia on September 5, 2015 at 11:53 am said:

I do love the cooking and novel combination, so this one is going on my TRL, after the first in the series.

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Tina on September 5, 2015 at 1:40 pm said:

You picked a good foodie cozy mystery! Janel has talent and she will be up to book 20 in her series before you know it. I love a series, I like following along with the same characters and seeing how they grow and form relationships.

Great review!

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Carole from Carole's Chatter on September 5, 2015 at 3:00 pm said:

I can see a cozy culinary in my near future! Cheers from Carole’s Chatter!

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Belle Wong on September 5, 2015 at 4:09 pm said:

I love Janel’s writing! This is such a fun foodie mystery series.

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Sheila Book Journey on September 6, 2015 at 10:55 am said:

This looks like a perfect read for me in this season!

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Roberta on September 6, 2015 at 2:42 pm said:

Thank you so much for recommending the books and giving the titles in order. I have read two series lately where the publisher listed the books either in reverse order or out of order, which can be quite frustrating.

Yum!

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Laurie C on September 7, 2015 at 7:15 am said:

I keep meaning to try this author before the series gets too long!

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Isi on September 12, 2015 at 5:46 am said:

Cozy culinary mysteries? is a new genre for me, haha, but it sounds very funny

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