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Frosted with Fear
Paperback
Publisher Price: $12.99
Publisher: AP Miller Productions
Published: Sep 13 2025
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Frosted With Fear, the first delicious mystery in the Deadly Delights Cozy Culinary Mystery Series, whisks readers to Sweet River, a postcard-pretty town where gossip travels faster than a mixer on high. Pastry chef Rosie Hart is prepping for the year's biggest bake-off when a celebrity judge takes one bite of her signature lemon cupcakes... and collapses. In a blink, Rosie's triumph curdles into a nightmare, her café is swarmed by cameras, and the words prime suspect get piped onto every headline.
With her business on the brink and her reputation melting, Rosie trades her chef's hat for a sleuth's cap. The clues are as slippery as buttercream: a sabotaged oven, a switched ingredient, a missing scorecard, and a rival baker with a grudge as old as a family recipe. Add in a sharp-eyed food blogger hungry for clicks, a health inspector who'd love to shutter Rosie's kitchen, and a TV producer guarding secrets behind a perfect smile, and Sweet River suddenly doesn't feel so sweet.
Luckily, Rosie isn't whisking alone. Her outspoken best friend, a librarian who knows where all the skeletons-and cookbooks-are filed, and a retired beat cop with a weakness for cinnamon rolls join the investigation. Between café rushes and midnight stakeouts, they sift suspects, separate truth from town talk, and follow a trail that winds from the courthouse square to the riverwalk-and right back to Rosie's mixing bowl.
This culinary cozy serves up what readers crave: mouthwatering recipes (yes, the lemon cupcakes are included), small-town charm, quirky supporting characters, and a fair-play puzzle with twists that actually surprise. The tone stays light, the danger never gets graphic, and the humor rises naturally from Rosie's quick wit and the town's lovable eccentrics.
Perfect for fans of baking mysteries, lighthearted crime fiction, and unstoppable amateur sleuths, Frosted With Fear is a series opener that pairs warmth with suspense and keeps the pages turning long after the oven timer dings. If you love cozies with recipes, red herrings tucked between layers of cake, and a heroine you'll root for from chapter one, grab your copy of Frosted With Fear-where the frosting may be sweet, but the motive is murder.
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