Red Velvet Revenge
A delicious red velvet cupcake leads to a deadly secret in Maplewood
- Mystery
Goldie Bloom expected her return to Maplewood to be filled with sugar and spice, not a murder investigation. Inheriting her late Aunt Liddy’s bakery, Sweetie Crimes, was supposed to be a fresh start. But when her ex-boyfriend Brock Templeton drops dead at the annual Spring Festival after taking a bite of her famous red velvet cupcake, Goldie becomes the town’s most wanted—and not for her pastries. With Detective Eli Graves breathing down her neck and the community turning sour, Goldie must sift through the evidence to clear her name. Between managing a glitter-obsessed best friend and a snarky African Grey parrot named Sprinkles, she discovers a trail of coded recipe cards that reveal Aunt Liddy was hiding more than just her secret ingredients. As Goldie peels back the layers of a municipal corruption scheme involving embezzled funds and local politics, she realizes the killer is closer than she thought. In a race against time, Goldie must find the real murderer before the town hall’s secrets rise like a bad souffle and destroy everything she’s worked for. Can she bake her way out of this mess, or is her future about to be burnt to a crisp?