A Knead to Kill

Author: Chelsea Thomas

4.5 out of 5 Stars

After successfully solving a murder in their hometown, Chelsea, Miss May, and Teeny head to Chester, Vermont to participate in the Vermont Bake-Off. And excitingly, the judge is going to be famous baker George Rivers. Soon after checking in to their hotel, Chelsea goes out for a swim in the lake, and unfortunately swims right into George Rivers corpse. When the detective immediately decides that Chelsea is their prime suspect, the three women jump into solving the case.

I enjoyed this cozy mystery. It’s half the length of the other books in this series, so it’s a good way to decide if you want to buy the others. Overall, the writing was good. The mystery had some good twists, especially the identity of the killer and their motive.

The only negative for me was the characterization of Teeny. Her entire purpose seems to be as the oblivious comic relief. Sometimes it’s fine and whatever she said was just funny, but other times it distracted from what was going on and was just annoying.

With only that one negative, I’m rating this book 4.5 out of 5 stars. If you like small town mysteries with interesting characters, then you’ll like this one.

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