Flour in the Attic

by Winnie Archer, Emily Durante (Read by)

Overview

Just as Ivy’s brother Billy is about to get engaged to his beloved, a tragedy interrupts the happy moment. The body of longtime Santa Sofia resident Marisol Ruiz washes up on the beach—and it’s even more heartbreaking since Marisol’s father also recently died. But Marisol was a strong competitive swimmer. It seems unlikely there’s even a grain of truth to the theory that she accidentally drowned. As Ivy gets to work helping her mentor, Olaya Solis, with the catering for Marisol’s funeral, she also teams up with her partners in detection—because if they want to prevent someone from getting away with murder, there’s no time for loafing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781974963034
Publisher:	Dreamscape Media
Publication date:	08/27/2019
Series:	Bread Shop Mystery Series , #4
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 5.04(h) x 1.13(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Winnie Archer is a middle-school teacher by day and a bestselling author by night. Born in a beach town in California, she is known for writing cozy mysteries that involve baking, crafts, and Mexican food. When not writing, she enjoys yoga, chocolate, and pumpkin-spice lattes. She currently resides with her five kids and husband in northern Texas.

Emily Durante has performed in a number of stage plays professionally, in the community, and at the college level. Other performance credits include commercial and industrial voice work, educational live theater, and singing telegrams. She has been narrating audiobooks for over ten years. She has also directed audiobooks, including the Earphones Award-winning performance of Heaven's Keep narrated by Buck Schirner. She resides in the Philadelphia area with her husband and two children.

Editorial Reviews

2019-05-27
A baker turns sleuth to solve a murder with overabundant clues.

Ivy Culpepper (The Walking Bread, 2018, etc.) is bummed when her best friend Emmaline Davis' beachside marriage proposal to Ivy's brother, Billy, is interrupted by the discovery of the body of Marisol Ruiz floating near the shore. But Ivy's pique goes nuclear when Sheriff Emmaline reveals that Marisol had been strangled before being dumped in the water. Marisol had been a fixture at Baptista's Cantina and Grill, where she was not only a beloved longtime employee, but the mother of Sergio Morales, the husband of Miguel Baptista's sister, Laura. Miguel not only owns Baptista's, but has a long-term lease on Ivy's heart: The two were high school sweethearts before Ivy temporarily lost her mind, moved to Austin, and married no-good Luke Holden. Now divorced from Luke and working at Yeast of Eden, an artisanal bakery in her hometown of Santa Sofia, Ivy wants Miguel back. What better way to return to her man's good graces than to find the lowdown dog who killed his sister's mother-in-law? Unfortunately, the path to the killer is cluttered. Marisol had been acting strangely since the recent death of her own father, turning away from her second husband, David, and writing urgent messages to her ex-husband, Johnny Morales. She quarreled with some of her children and changed her will. But nobody could have anticipated the depravity Ivy uncovers when she learns of the nasty secret at the heart of Marisol's murder.

Wheels within wheels power a dark-inflected cozy.

Kirkus Reviews