Dying for Danish

Lexy Baker #2

by Leighann Dobbs

Murder can be bad for business...

When Lexy Baker lands a high paying catering job that allows her to buy some much needed kitchen equipment, she's excited that things are going so well ... until she stumbles over the body of the bride-to-be.

Suddenly Lexy finds herself in a race against time to find the killer. Aided by four iPad toting amateur detective grandma's, her best friend and her little dog Sprinkles, Lexy finds the suspect list growing at every turn.

To make matters worse, the investigation is headed up by her hunky neighbor Detective Jack Perillo who she had been hot and heavy with - until he mysteriously stopped calling her several weeks earlier.

Add a handsome, rich bachelor who is also a suspect and seems to have designs on Lexy to the mix, and Lexy soon finds that things are not what they seem.

Will Lexy be able to catch the killer in time, or will she end up Dying for Danish?

--Includes two recipes - one for homemade Danish from scratch and one for an easier version!

This is book 2 in the Lexy Baker Cozy Mystery Series, but you don't have to read them in order if you don't want to! Show less

Genres: Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Cozy, Fiction, Romance, Audiobook, Chick Lit

200 pages, Paperback

First published December 3, 2012

About the author

USA Today bestselling author, Leighann Dobbs, discovered her passion for writing after a twenty year career as a software engineer. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband Bruce, their trusty Chihuahua mix Mojo and beautiful rescue cat, Kitty.

Her book "Dead Wrong" won the "Best Mystery Romance" award at the 2014 Indie Romance Convention.

Her book "Ghostly Paws" was the 2015 Chanticleer Mystery & Mayhem First Place category winner in the Animal Mystery category.

Reviews

[Kim Yeager Giddens · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dying For DanishLeighann Dobbs

It was a cute, quick read but there wasn't much substance. It went TOO quickly, if you know what I mean. But not bad...

[Emmalynn · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.7-3 stars. In line with the first book, cute, quick, fluffy read. This one was a bit better than the first, slightly :). The mystery is not complicated, not a lot of details to bog you down, and it’s silly to have this baker going around wearing stilettos all the time.

[Caryn - iam.caryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

A charming addition to a fun little series. Actually enjoyed this one even more than the first one.

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

I give this book 3.5 stars.
Book 2 in the Lexi Baker Cosy Mysteries, was yet again another delightful read to while away the hours. I found it a far easier read - good flow, well written & more character development. I love these little reads of Leighann Dobbs - just enough to keep you interested but not enough to bog you down. Great when you're very short of time!

[Peg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this series and author

I love Cozy mysteries in general, but all time favorite is the Lexy Baker series. I'm also a big fan of Leighann Dobbs. I loved this book, with the growing list of suspects, and Lexy, Nans, her friends from the retirement home, Sprinkles and the rest of the characters that keep you entertained. I recommend this to anyone loving to read cozies.

[April Wood · Rating 4 out of 5]

Add one little white dog,
A protagonist who owns a bakery,
a dash of murder mystery,
and a splash of romance for good measure!

Dying for Danish has everything that I enjoy about the cozy mystery genre, plus more! I love Lexy Baker, the stiletto- wearing-baker who always winds up involved in a murder mystery, and her little white dog, sprinkles! I have to mention, the titles of these books in this series are GREAT.

My only complaint is the way it reads. This novel, like the first, really needs another round of editing.

Nevertheless, I am hooked on this series and I highly recommend it to fans who enjoy cozy mysteries!

Full Book Review: https://aprillwood.wordpress.com/2016...

[Nuala Raftery · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was weak in every respect. The plot was thin, the characters flat.

[Tracey Mccall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun read

I really enjoyed this second book, I'm looking forward to reading the next book in this series. I'm getting a kick out of the ladies detective club

[Natasha House · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lexi is caught in the middle of another murder, when she runs into a dead body while catering for a big wedding.

What I liked:
Dying for Danish was another fun read for me. This book is light hearted, with lovable characters (Ipad toting old ladies, cute little fluffy dogs, and of course Lexi!) and just something great for when you’re cuddled up under a blanket. This was my bedtime story and always made me smile just before I went to sleep.

What I didn’t like: Probably my only complaint in this book was some editing stuff. Grammar mistakes don’t bother me that much but a few dogs’ instead of dog’s did annoy me a tad. Dialogue tags weren’t always done correctly. “Can I have that?” She said. Or stuff like that, the she shouldn’t be capitalized. But, I don’t really buy these books for the perfect editing.

These books are extremely entertaining for me, and I’ll probably pick up the next one. It’s hard for me to find this type of book: light hearted, cute mystery, fun characters, so I’ m happy I found this author.

[Vicki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dying for Danish was the second book featuring bakery owner and mystery silver, Lexy Baker. When Lexy stumbled onto the body of the bride to be while catering a pre wedding luncheon she is drawn into a murder mystery.

Her boyfriend And next door neighbor is once again called in to lead he investigation. Jack warns her not to get involved, but Lexy has reasons if her own yo get this mystery solved as soon as possible.

The cozy mystery is a quick and fun read. Lexy and her grandmother, Nans work the clues to solve this as quickly as they can.

[Mindy Houston · Rating 2 out of 5]

The plural and colloquial of Danish pastry is just danishes. Please stop calling it flat out Danish. I can't tell you how many times that word kept yanking me out of the story. Also, I figured out the murderer in the second chapter. When he decides to tell the protagonist his plan in the last chapter "since she won't be around to tell anyone", it fulfilled the bad-guy cliche.

[Gail · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another fun loving cozy mystery with Lexy Baker and her grandma and senior sleuth friends. I just love how no matter where Lexy goes she just happens to get involved in a murder and ends up getting herself in trouble. I enjoyed every minute of this short cozy mystery and hated to see it end.

[Petula · Rating 3 out of 5]

A short sweet murder mystery. Readable but a little bland for me. I wont be rushing out to buy the next one.

[Pearl Meaker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another adventure with Lexy, Sprinkles, Nans and The Ladies Detective Club. This has a good plot, good food and great characters. I really enjoyed it.

[Kerri · Rating 5 out of 5]

cute storyline... light ready

[Gidg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another easy read to pass the time. And yup, again the Who Done It was obvious from the start but what wasn't obvious was the motive. We were led to believe it was one thing that it wasn't and when the truth is revealed it was a welcome surprise.

Loved Mono and her senior lady's detective club as they are charming and funny characters. But once again Lexy disappoints with her lack of common sense and being willfully obtuse. Not a fan of her best friend Cassy either as she seems to not be as helpful as she could be.

Although I'm enjoying Lexy's beau Jack. While he tries to dissuade Lexy from getting involved in the case because he doesn't want her to get hurt and not because he doesn't feel her clever enough to help and yet he is open to listen to her when she has info to share. He trust her and supports her and that makes him a character I can get behind.

One annoying thing I don't like about the author's idea of Lexy always wearing stilettos is that it's impractical and unrealistic. WHO wears stilettos to walk in the woods? Common sense would say those things will get stuck in the soft ground or one could twist their ankle if stepping on a branch or rock... which one of those things do happen. Even a designer shoe whore must own a pair of sneakers or some cute wedges that are better suited to walk in the woods to avoid having the shoe get stuck in the ground. SMH. And if the author thought that a stiletto is the only devise to use to create a snafu happen to Lexy in the woods she is mistaken. She could have had Lexy trip on her own feet while wearing sneakers or Lexy accidently walking out of her wedge shoes as the shoe got stuck in some muddy patch.

[Kat (Ginger Bibliophile on YouTube) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was another super quick freebie from bookbub. Didn't want to turn on the light and wake everyone, so I busted out the kindle and knocked this out. Not a bad book, but I'm glad it was free. I was expecting some giggles and just barely got 'em thanks to the elderly ladies at the retirement home. Nans and her group of Lady Detectives Club members are adorably up to no good solving crimes to help out the local cops, with one of em's blessing despite telling his current neighbor to keep her nose out of it. This time, it's not to clear her name but to get paid so she can afford the new appliances she just bought that Lexy can't stay out of the murder investigation. In dropping off the pastries for a brunch expecting to get half of her money for the wedding event, she instead stumbles on the body of the gold digging fiancé. Lexy flirts, uses Sprinkles, and just plain bumbles around accidentally on almost the right track, all while stubbornly avoiding her cop boyfriend/neighbor she's pissed at but can't tell him that since he stupidly forgot to be bothered to talk to her while working on a case. Half the book is solving the murder, the other half is deciding whether she's horny or mad thanks to Jack. I want to like this series and there's definitely worse ways to spend 2 hrs, but I'm glad I didn't pay for this one.

[Ellen Behrens · Rating 3 out of 5]

More of a 3-1/2 stars... This was an enjoyable cozy, with familiar types of characters and situations. Sometimes it seems reading a few cozies is the same as reading them all because of such ingrained formulas, stereotypes, and manipulated situations. For example, a plucky, sassy, female protagonist's business is in danger but she has to solve a mystery to make things right, her loyal sidekick by her side and her maybe boyfriend nearby.

The relationships these women have with their boyfriends also follow a pattern: manufactured spats and hissy fits, old-fashioned misunderstandings that quickly escalate into full-blown arguments, all forcing the protagonist to feel as though she's teetering on the edge of her relationship. Really? If women (and men) actually act this way in some part of the world I don't live in, I feel sorry for them.

I realize cozies are escapism reading, so I'm probably being too harsh. Or I've read just one too many cozies. Or maybe that's why this particular one is an average version of the formula.

[Patricia Kiyono · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lexy’s bakery (The Cup and Cake) has been hired to cater several gatherings leading to a local millionaire’s wedding. When she arrives at the mansion to deliver pastries for a brunch, she’s surprised to find the door open, and on entering the kitchen she discovers the bride-to-be dead on the kitchen floor with a knife wound to the chest. The knife is determined to be from Lexy’s kitchen, but it’s never explained how the knife got there before Lexy did. Or if it was, the explanation was glossed over and I missed it. Lexy had been counting on the funds from the catering job to pay for new equipment in the bakery, but the distraught millionaire doesn’t want to think about paying anyone while he’s grieving, so Lexy is motivated to solve the murder before she gets into financial trouble. It struck me as odd that a millionaire wouldn’t have a “money guy” to handle his bills, but I guess Lexy needed a reason to snoop. Her penchant for designer shoes also make me less inclined to like her as a heroine.

[Bonnie Dale Keck · Rating 1 out of 5]

Kindle Unlimited, Leighann Dobbs writes under Leighann Dobbs, Annie Dobbs and (soon) L.A. Dobbs but her real name {not sure if she writes under that one} is Lee Dobbins, Hazel Martin Mysteries only one I found for this type with her, she has not made sure that terms used match the British terms as well as in other areas for that period of architecture and assorted styles.

The Notch Cozy Mystery Series {5 out as of this writing} and the Blackbore Sisters Cozy Mysteries are not on Kindle Unlimited which as said before about 1 & 7 {the only ones given free, sure would not have bought them} and ditto for Ghostly Paws which is 1 of 5 at this time but did get others free over time.

While some of her other books are Kindle Unlimited none of the Blackmoore Sisters Cozy Mysteries are which doesn't matter to me as read #1 and #7 and was way underwhelmed. Leighann Dobbs writes under Leighann Dobbs, Annie Dobbs and (soon) L.A. Dobbs but her real name {not sure if she writes under that one} is Lee Dobbins, Hazel Martin Mysteries only one I found for this type with her, she has not made sure that terms used match the British terms as well as in other areas for that period of architecture and assorted styles. By the way, bakeries and other food service places don't run like that. Badly needs to proof things, it's messing up the flow of the book, which my computer reads to me, so that's bad. As for these, it's not that the situations couldn't happen, it's in the telling of the story, with unlikable unbelievable characters and situations, again.

Yet another goodreads won't hide it don't want to see the badly proofed badly plotted poor excuse for bad soft core porn crap. The 'historical' ones are like that and so are the some of the non cozy mysteries and some of the sorta but not really mysteries because can't write, etc ad nauseum. The most any of them got was 2 changed to 1 for crap cozy, some get a 1 which means basically crappy soft porn 'romance' etc.

3 in Silver Hollow Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series so far which are on kindle unlimited, 3 in the Moosamuck Island Mysteries , 5 in the Mystic Notch Cozy Mysteries so far {not ku}, Blackmore Sisters has 7 {not ku}, Hazel Martin Mysteries only has 1 so far, Lexy Baker Cozy Mystery series 12 so far is on ku. Others.including Scandals and Spies Book series so far 4 which are basically romance soft core porn dreck but hey you can get them on ku. Witches of Hawthorne Grove 1 so far,Cevonne Bride of Oklahoma, Unexpected Series 4 so far ku.

The Lexy Baker Cozy Mystery Series By the way, bakeries and other food service places don't run like that. Badly needs to proof things, it's messing up the flow of the book, which my computer reads to me, so that's bad. As for these, it's not that the situations couldn't happen, it's in the telling of the story, with unlikable unbelievable characters and situations, again.

Copy/paste fill in the blank seems to be pretty much what she is doing in her books, which wouldn't be half as bad if the plots and ploys and actions were believable at all.Just change the name for a book and maybe change the series list under, and you are right back to copy paste same old same old.

NOTE: I specifically mentioned certain of the 'books'/series were achieving soft core crap status, and specifically said which ones those were, reference AGAIN the above quoted review, and did not specifically mention the blackmore ones as that, BUT and had not mentioned that had went back and rated all no talent no plot cardboard charactered 'stories' listed above as 1 as well. I will change the original review to reflect that, but it is still a 1, and MY review of the crap stands.

[Beverly · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dying for Danish is the second book in the Lexy Baker cozy mysteries. It is not necessary to have read the first book in the series when reading the second, but the people and case from the first book are briefly referred to a few times. Lexy Baker lives in her grandmother's house, has a hunky policeman for a neighbor, an assistant that does whatever she asks and has a great bakery business even though she doesn't seem to work very much. She also has mink colored hair and wears stillettos and tight jeans on her occasional work days and more frequent sleuthing opportunities. All of those things are in the first book also, but by the second book the constant descriptions of her appearance and her lack of using one brain cell became tiresome for me. If you can ignore all of that, it is an okay cozy mystery. I listened to the audiobook while running and it was great for that purpose. It didn't require a lot of my brain cells either!

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

The second book in the Lexy Baker cozy mystery series is Dying for Danish. Lexy Baker, her dog Sprinkles. detective Jack Perillo, and the Ladies Detective Club in Brook Ridge Falls are back. This time Lexy is providing goodies at the Toliver family house. Xavier Toliver is getting married again. When Lexy arrives to start arranging the desserts, she discovers the bride-to-be, Chastine Johnson, is dead in the kitchen. Now she has to hurry up and solve the mystery so she can get paid. She needs the money to pay for her new kitchen equipment. There is danger, lots of suspects, and relationship woes for Lexy and Jack to work out. This is another fun cozy read.

[Tari · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I read the first book, I just loved Nans and her three friends from the retirement center who were amateur sleuths. They could definitely get away with investigating a lot better than Lexy could, but it was always Lexy who ended up doing the physical and usually dangerous work like having a showdown with a killer.

The ladies were on their game in this book as well. Lexy's little dog Sprinkles was a lifesaver during the showdown with the killer. I hadn't exactly guessed the killer but I wasn't too surprised. There weren't a huge amount of suspects, but I have to admit I fell for a red herring or two.

[Beth C. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lexie is involved in another murder-mystery. This time she stumbled upon a body at a big catering job - one that had afforded her all new kitchen equipment, but wasn’t completely paid for yet, as the rest of the payment hadn’t come in yet.
After finding out that she wasn’t going to get paid until the murder was solved, she and her grandmother, Nans, and her group of elderly amateur detectives (the Ladies Detective Club) decide to get involved to get Lexie her money.
Much to the dismay of detective Jack, Lexie’s new boyfriend, Lexie gets all mixed up in the investigation again.
This one was much less predictable, which was nice. This is a fun series. Looking forward to the next one.

[Nikki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book Two in the Lexy Baker cozy mystery series starts immediately with a dropped body. The story is cozy and entertaining, easy to follow. I find audiobooks like this perfect for my working hours as I can easily focus on my tasks while keeping one ear free to listen to Lexy poke her nose in places that are none of her business.
This volume in the series follows the similar easy recipe as the first, blending mystery with a bit of rom-com. Although I was a bit hesitant to listen to the next book, I am eagerly looking forward to the next one.
The story is not much, it's not wow. But it is relaxing and a perfect companion during the long 8 hours of work I have to perform every day.

[Helen · Rating 5 out of 5]

E-Reader. Cozy Mystery

If you like a good cozy mystery this book is for you!I
Lexy owns the Cup & Cake Cafe, in Brook Ridge.
While delivering food for a brunch she finds the dead body of Xavier Toliver, Chastine Johnson.
She gets together with the Ladies Detective Club, Nans, Ida, Helen & Ruth. Nans is her Grandmother, she lives in a retirement home.
Detective Jack Perillo is her current boyfriend. He's in charge of this case.
Good luck on trying to find out who killed Chastine.
Well written and great series.

[billy · Rating 3 out of 5]

somehow, just somehow, i actually love this series..
okay so i read killer cupcakes and it was so bad that it was good. and this one was the same.
except the stakes rose a lot more in this book and i liked that about it. except the narrative was a little bit hard to grasp. mostly because Leighann dobbs added in so many new characters it became confusing. but i liked it. i read this book and killer cupcakes on scribd, using both ebook and audiobook options, and now I’ve ordered the physical copies of the next few books in the series. but overall, still three stars.

[Anastasia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dying for Danish by Leighann Dobbs is the 2nd book in the Lexy Baker Mystery series. Delivering danish pastries for a high end catering job, Lexy comes across the murdered body of the bride-to-be. I enjoyed this book more than the first one, especially Lexy's grandmother and her friend mking up the Ladies detective club. I like that this book focussed more on solving the mystery and that Lexy did not take unnecessary risks but shared her information with the police. A cute, light and enjoyable cozy mystery with recipes included.

[Marsha Asquith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lexy Baker arrives at her catering job for the engaged couple only to find the bride to be laying in a puddle of blood. She tries to stay out of the investigation but her Nans and the Retirement Ladies have other plans. They want to solve the mystery and find the killer. Lexy does too but for different reasons. With the groom, his sons, his ex and the bride's assistant as suspects, which have motive and possible opportunity, Lexy has to be careful or she could end up just like the lady on the floor. Can she figure out who's responsible before they get their hands on her?

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

As Lexy Baker prepares to cater a wedding and the attendant events, she stumbles over a body in the kitchen of the bride's family home. The lovely danish pastry she was planning to serve goes flying as she recognizes the body as that of the bride-to-be. It's a case for Lexy try to solve, while proving to the police that she had nothing to do with the murder.

This cozy mystery series is a light enjoyable read, but not a series one wants to charge right through. It is a bit too sweet for reading more than one or two in a row.