Dough or Die (Bread Shop Mystery #5)

by Winnie Archer, Emily Durante (Read by)

Overview

The Yeast of Eden bakery is bound for reality TV—but a murder may kill its reputation…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781662032073
Publisher:	Dreamscape Media
Publication date:	09/10/2020
Series:	Bread Shop Mystery Series , #5
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

2020-05-18
A reality show turns deadly for an apprentice bread maker.

Ivy Culpepper so worships Olaya Solis, the creative spirit behind Yeast of Eden, that she works in Olaya’s shop, evidently without pay, just to learn the art of long-rise baking that creates artisanal loaves beloved by the citizens of Santa Sofia, on Southern California’s sunny shore. When Santa Sofia alum Sandra Mays wants to shoot the pilot of America’s Best Bakeries at Yeast of Eden, Ivy naturally urges her mentor to agree. What better way to bring attention to Olaya’s Bread for Life program, a baking course for immigrant women? Of course, Ivy doesn’t count on the series of challenges that threaten the production, from the bad blood evident between imperious Sandra and showrunner Mack Hebron to the hit-and-run that sends cameraman Ben Nader to the hospital, all culminating in the demise of Sandra, who’s pushed over and hits her head. But rather than throwing cold water on the whole reality show enterprise, Sandra’s murder only sharpens Ivy’s appetite. Like a patron tearing into one of Olaya’s olive-and-rosemary loaves, she shows nothing but enthusiasm for the hunt for Sandra’s killer—even going so far as to volunteer her skills at Crosby House, a women’s shelter where Nader also worked, in an attempt to ferret out who had a motive to harm Ben, Sandra, the production, or all three.

Standard cozy fare in an artisanal wrapper.

Kirkus Reviews