From Plaid to Worse

by Gayle Roper

A new rival, a suspicious death, and a rash of arson attacks around Loch Mallaig bring the Bakehouse Three into a dangerous game of cat and mouse.

A warming trend is heading to Loch Mallaig, Michigan, although spring mud puddles abound and the Scottish town’s namesake lake is still covered in ice. Unfortunately, Bread on Arrival’s head baker, Laura Donovan, gets fired up over more than just the heat wave when she learns that a rival bakery is opening in Loch Mallaig. That problem is quickly put on the back burner, however, when Laura makes a chilling discovery—a dead man in the icy loch.

Laura and her best friends, Molly Ferris and Carol MacCallan, are soon distracted by an increasingly sinister series of fires being set by an unknown arsonist using local homes as kindling for his dangerous deeds. Laura and her friends seek to see past the arsonist’s smoke and mirrors to reveal his true intentions, but are the sleuthing bakers playing with fire? If Laura doesn’t stop investigating, something she cares about could be the next target to go up in flames—with potentially fatal consequences.

This clever whodunit from Annie’s Scottish Bakehouse Mysteries series is a must-read for fans of cozy mysteries, baking, Scottish culture, and female friendships.

216 pages, Unknown Binding

About the author

Gayle Roper rejoices every day that she gets to be a writer because she's in love with story. Even on the days that words rebel and have to be coerced onto the paper, there is nothing else she'd rather do. When readers like her work, it's like God says, "See? I knew what you were wired to do." When her books win awards like the Carol Award (Caught Redhanded) or the RITA Award (Autumn Dreams), the Holt Medallion (The Decision, Caught in a Bind, Autumn Dreams) or the Reviewer's Choice (The Decision), it's icing on the cake. And she gets to teach others how to write at conferences too. She spends a lot of time smiling. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and Romance Writers of America and is the best-selling author of Hide & Seek and more than forty other books.