A Pie for a Pie by London Lovett [Review]

A Pie for a Pie (Scottie Ramone Mystery #5) by London Lovett
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: November 10, 2024

Scottie Ramone Mystery
0.5. Banana Chiffon and Bad Deeds
1. Heads Will Cinnamon Roll
2. Better Off Shortbread
3. Dead Gingerbread Man Walking
4. Caught Bread Handed
5. A Pie for a Pie - Paperback | Kindle
6. Bad to the Scone

London Lovett
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

It’s a crisp autumn in Ripple Creek, and Scottie Ramone is busy baking pumpkin pies for the town’s pie eating contest. Business is great, but her social life is still in tatters. She’s avoiding one man and the other has left town for a very prolonged book tour. She knows definitively which way her heart is leaning, but is it too late?

In the meantime, the pie contest ends in disaster when one of the contestants dies right after eating her pie. Scottie is desperate to find the killer and clear her name, but there are many directions to turn, and it seems everyone has a motive. Customers are canceling their holiday orders, and if Scottie doesn’t solve the case soon, her bakery will be ruined.

Thoughts on A Pie for a Pie: We're back in Ripple Creek with Scottie and (as you might expect) there has been some crime she needs to deal with. Since this crime is causing a dip in her bakery sales (thanks to the bad guy using her pie as the weapon of choice), Scottie has a VERY personal reason for figuring out who did the deed.

While the criming is bad, Scottie is also dealing with her realization that there is one man she'd be very sad to not see again. Let's just say things are happening on that front, but it's a bumpy ride. And with the crime-solving at the front of her to-do list (because she likes her bakery and wants to keep it open), her issues with the two men in her life are another thing she ahs to deal with. (To be fair, dealing with that issue isn't a hardship, necessarily, but it is another thing taking up real estate in her brain.)

Some pointed questions, pie that doesn't at all deserve the bad reputation it's getting, kisses, decisions, and one lady who is determined to get to the bottom of the crime committed so her pies don't take the blame. *thumbs up*