Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander – A Bakeshop Mystery #1
Finished: 12 February 2016
Rating: 5 stars
“They say it takes a while to recover your land legs after
years at sea. I sure hoped mine would come back soon.”
Shakespeare, pastries and murder make the perfect combination
for a new cozy series. I loved this book from page one. Ellie Alexander does an
excellent job of engaging us in the mystery while weaving in clues, red
herrings and twists along the way. We are introduced to the main protagonist, Juliet
Montague Capshaw. She returns to Ashland, Oregon, her home town and home of the
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, after a decade of being away. Her second day home
she discovers a dead body in her family’s bakery, Torte. Solving the murder and
baking at Torte become the perfect combination to distract Jules as we start to
learn about her past; her career, her husband and their recent separation. Well
developed characters, an engaging story line, developing subplots and delicious
recipes round out this refreshing new series. All in all, Meet Your
Baker was a very entertaining read and I absolutely loved it. I can’t wait to
read the next book in this series.
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