A Bread Shop Mystery
Photographer Ivy Culpepper is soon to make a home with her husband-to-be in the California beach town of Santa Sofiaâbut the Yeast of Eden bakery remains her second home. Itâs not just a place to work, but a communityâand now one member of the community has been murdered. A regular who used Yeast of Eden as a workspace, Josh Prentiss always turned heads with his startlingly good looks and thousand-watt smile. But Ivy canât help noticing one morning that he seems distracted and off his game. Later, during a visit to the park where she and Miguel plan to hold their engagement partyâwith plenty of baked goods on the menuâher rescue pug, Agatha, sniffs out Josh lying in a bed of poppiesâŠscone cold dead. Thereâs no reason for Ivy to get involved. Sheâs busy enough holding down the fort while the shopâs owner, Olaya, cares for her recently orphaned nieceânot to mention the stress when a new employee is fired and storms out in a rage. Then a band of rabble-rousers starts picketing the bakery, claiming that Olayaâs sourdough roll is what killed Josh, and Ivy hears some salacious gossip about her beloved boss. She doesnât think thereâs a grain of truth to the seedy rumorsâbut to prove it, sheâll have to start sleuthing...