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Baking & Entering
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.99
Publisher: Lodestar Press
Published: Jun 15 2026
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Christmas bake-off. A dead pawnshop owner. And one amateur sleuth who definitely didn't mean to get involved.
Lena Kozek only entered the bake-off for one reason: to impress Henrik Nordlund, the maddeningly handsome ex-assassin-turned-lawyer who seems to enjoy watching her get into trouble. Unfortunately, trouble is Lena's zodiac sign.
When pawnshop owner Leo Kravetz turns up dead in a holiday pastry display, Lena's friend Omar becomes the prime suspect. Omar's only crime appears to be running a bakery pop-up inside Leo's pawn shop-a detail Leo was loudly unhappy about.
Now Lena is juggling:
- a murder investigation
- a fiercely competitive Christmas bake-off
- a suspicious Elvis-themed pie server
- a town full of people with reasons to hate Leo
- and a nearly hairless cat with strong opinions about a suspicious Christmas ingredient
Add in Lena's sarcastic ghost father, a determined police detective who already thinks she's trouble, and that Norwegian lawyer who keeps getting dragged into her chaos, and solving the murder before the bake-off contest starts looking like her only option.
Because if Lena can't prove Omar is innocent, the real killer will walk free.
And Lena's holiday plans will include visiting a friend in jail.
Perfect for fans of humorous cozy mysteries, holiday whodunits, and amateur sleuths who attract trouble like flour attracts fingerprints.
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