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A Nosy Neighbor Mystery #4
Death by Baking
When a dead body is found face first in a vat of chocolate inside Stormi's mother's bakery, what's a nosy neighbor to do other than find a killer?
Just when she was rethinking her new writing venture of hunting down crimes in order to write about them, Stormi is thrust into another mystery. Someone wants the shop owners of Oak Meadows, Arkansas, to sell out and they will kill to make that happen. Stormi is determined to keep her idyllic town the quaint place it is.
Her neighbors are not what they seem, evil encroaches ever closer, and the little old woman across the street wants nothing more than to run Stormi out of town.
Full of the same quirky characters, Cynthia Hickey's readers have come to expect, Death By Baking doesn't disappoint in either her humorous who-dunnit style or in the romance department.
Just when she was rethinking her new writing venture of hunting down crimes in order to write about them, Stormi is thrust into another mystery. Someone wants the shop owners of Oak Meadows, Arkansas, to sell out and they will kill to make that happen. Stormi is determined to keep her idyllic town the quaint place it is.
Her neighbors are not what they seem, evil encroaches ever closer, and the little old woman across the street wants nothing more than to run Stormi out of town.
Full of the same quirky characters, Cynthia Hickey's readers have come to expect, Death By Baking doesn't disappoint in either her humorous who-dunnit style or in the romance department.
- GenresCozy Mystery
312 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 8, 2015
About the author
Cynthia Hickey
1,716 books339 followersWebsite at www.cynthiahickey.com
Also www.forgetmenotromances.com
Multi-published and Amazon and ECPA Best-Selling author Cynthia Hickey had three cozy mysteries and two novellas published through Barbour Publishing. Her first mystery, Fudge-Laced Felonies, won first place in the inspirational category of the Great Expectations contest in 2007. Her third cozy, Chocolate-Covered Crime, received a four-star review from Romantic Times. All three cozies have been re-released as ebooks through the MacGregor Literary Agency, along with a new cozy series, all of which stay in the top 50 of Amazon’s ebooks for their genre. She had several historical romances release through Harlequin’s Heartsong Presents, and has sold close to a million copies of her works since 2013. She has taught a Continuing Education class at the 2015 American Christian Fiction Writers conference, several small ACFW chapters and RWA chapters. You can find her on FB, twitter, and Goodreads, and is a contributor to Cozy Mystery Magazine blog and Suspense Sisters blog. She and her husband run the small press, Forget Me Not Romances, which includes some of the CBA’s best well-known authors. She lives in Arizona with her husband, one of their seven children, two dogs, two cats, three box turtles, and two Sulcata tortoises. She has eight grandchildren who keep her busy and tell everyone they know that “Nana is a writer”.
Also www.forgetmenotromances.com
Multi-published and Amazon and ECPA Best-Selling author Cynthia Hickey had three cozy mysteries and two novellas published through Barbour Publishing. Her first mystery, Fudge-Laced Felonies, won first place in the inspirational category of the Great Expectations contest in 2007. Her third cozy, Chocolate-Covered Crime, received a four-star review from Romantic Times. All three cozies have been re-released as ebooks through the MacGregor Literary Agency, along with a new cozy series, all of which stay in the top 50 of Amazon’s ebooks for their genre. She had several historical romances release through Harlequin’s Heartsong Presents, and has sold close to a million copies of her works since 2013. She has taught a Continuing Education class at the 2015 American Christian Fiction Writers conference, several small ACFW chapters and RWA chapters. You can find her on FB, twitter, and Goodreads, and is a contributor to Cozy Mystery Magazine blog and Suspense Sisters blog. She and her husband run the small press, Forget Me Not Romances, which includes some of the CBA’s best well-known authors. She lives in Arizona with her husband, one of their seven children, two dogs, two cats, three box turtles, and two Sulcata tortoises. She has eight grandchildren who keep her busy and tell everyone they know that “Nana is a writer”.
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October 2, 2015
The author seems to have ups and downs with this series of books.
She built up a really good story line and at the end when it should have been an exciting fight and moment of rescue, it fizzled out.
Also not much talk of Stormi and Matt and their budding romance.
She built up a really good story line and at the end when it should have been an exciting fight and moment of rescue, it fizzled out.
Also not much talk of Stormi and Matt and their budding romance.
June 10, 2020
Death by chocolate has whole a new meaning...
Good grief, am I having fun with this series! Each new Nosy Neighbor Mystery is my favorite, and, Death By Baking was not exception. Seriously, author Cynthia Hickey has the cozy mystery thing down to a science, or art, or whatever you want to call it.
This time around Stormi doesn't stumble over the body, her mom does. But what else can Stormi do other than try and solve the two seemingly different mysteries surrounding her mom's bakery. Since Death By Baking involved a bakery I was pretty darn hungry for something sugary as I tried to solve the mystery alongside Stormi and crew, but it sure was fun...
Once again I listened to this story via audiobook and once again I was quite please with the overall production. No glitches and the continuity of having the same narrator as the previous audiobooks was a real plus. Cynthia Hickey's scrumptious story was done well and it was a great listening/reading experience. Don't miss it!
(I received a copy of this book from the publisher. All opinions are entirely my own.)
Good grief, am I having fun with this series! Each new Nosy Neighbor Mystery is my favorite, and, Death By Baking was not exception. Seriously, author Cynthia Hickey has the cozy mystery thing down to a science, or art, or whatever you want to call it.
This time around Stormi doesn't stumble over the body, her mom does. But what else can Stormi do other than try and solve the two seemingly different mysteries surrounding her mom's bakery. Since Death By Baking involved a bakery I was pretty darn hungry for something sugary as I tried to solve the mystery alongside Stormi and crew, but it sure was fun...
Once again I listened to this story via audiobook and once again I was quite please with the overall production. No glitches and the continuity of having the same narrator as the previous audiobooks was a real plus. Cynthia Hickey's scrumptious story was done well and it was a great listening/reading experience. Don't miss it!
(I received a copy of this book from the publisher. All opinions are entirely my own.)
July 31, 2019
Get rich, live big
A good read but at 87% of the page count the shortest of the series. A great plot about developers, get rich quick schemes, infidelity and murder. Loved the way even her sister is coming around and with Dakota eager to follow in his aunt's footsteps it would be great to see a later series with him included.
She's lost for ideas when her mother comes racing in with the news that there's a dead man in the bakery. A man with his head buried in a bowl of chocolate. With her mother as a suspect and Matt out of town, she feels that she has to find out what happened. Take a wife beater, a wife turning tricks on the side, an affair, an unscrupulous developer, harassment, murder and one nosy writer. Will they get the developers to abandon their scheme? Will they find the killer? Will Stormi survive the meeting?
A good read but at 87% of the page count the shortest of the series. A great plot about developers, get rich quick schemes, infidelity and murder. Loved the way even her sister is coming around and with Dakota eager to follow in his aunt's footsteps it would be great to see a later series with him included.
She's lost for ideas when her mother comes racing in with the news that there's a dead man in the bakery. A man with his head buried in a bowl of chocolate. With her mother as a suspect and Matt out of town, she feels that she has to find out what happened. Take a wife beater, a wife turning tricks on the side, an affair, an unscrupulous developer, harassment, murder and one nosy writer. Will they get the developers to abandon their scheme? Will they find the killer? Will Stormi survive the meeting?
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