Sprinkle with Murder by Jenn McKinlayMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Cozy Mystery group was reading Sprinkle with Murder this month, so i went to the library and picked up the book and the second in the series also.
Sprinkle with Murder tells the story of three friends since grade school, Angie, Mel and Tate. The three open a cupcake bakery and the story begins. There is the rival bakery owner, who drives by the store at least eight times a day, then there is Tate's finance, who is just downright mean, and no one understands what Tate see's in her. Then you have Angies seven overprotective, older brothers. Yes I said seven! In this book, I think there were only three that we learned by name, but they are all cut from the same cloth.
Tate and Christine, the mean fiance decide to have Mel and Angie do the cupcakes for their wedding. Of course this can't be easy, Christine wants five flavors for her wedding, in her colors of red, white and black, but she wants five flavors that new, that have never been created before, and to top it all off, she wants Mel to sign over the rights to the cupcake flavors to her. Mel has reservations about it, but it is a big coup for the new business and she does. She makes the five flavors and gives them to Christine, who calls to ask her to stop by the next morning to talk about them. When Mel shows up at Christine's the next morning, there is no answer and Mel soon discovers Christine's lifeless body.
Mel becomes the prime suspect, and her friendship with Tate is questioned. Mel feels she's being framed, and so she starts investigating herself.
The friendship between Mel, Angie and Tate is awesome to read about, the good friendship is wonderful, and the things that bring them together is fun. I love the flashbacks to grade school and to learn how they developed into the people they are today. Then there is one of Angie's brothers, Joe, that Mel has had a crush on since sixth grade. How does that play out? Does he realize it? Does Angie know? I'm not about to tell you, you have to read the book.
it was a great, quick, fun read! I even had to read the second book as soon as I put this one down!
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