Cake and Punishment

Southern Cake Baker Mystery, Book 1

By: Maymee Bell

Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan

In the first of a delectable new southern-set baking cozy series, Sophia Cummings, pastry chef extraordinaire, must craft the perfect cake for an old friend's wedding while sifting through the suspects in a murder.

Bucolic Rumford, Kentucky, has glowing fields of bluegrass, a fine selection of bourbons, and now a professional pastry chef. Broken-hearted Sophia Cummings has come home from New York City. She's not there a minute before she's charmed into making her high school friend Charlotte's wedding cake. The kitchen at the Rumford Country Club seems perfect until Chef Emile's body is discovered, sprawled near the stove, a cast iron skillet on the floor close by.

With one look at the shiny, new frying pan, Sophia knows it's not Emile's. She offers her knowledge to Sheriff Carter and her talents to Evelyn, the manager, who needs an interim chef. The mood in the country club is grim: Emile's peppery personality had burned members and staff alike. Sophia wonders which one of them burned him?

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Loved the storyline!

Love this narrator and the creation of recurring characters. Can’t wait to read more in this series. Great character development.

Narrator made it!

It was good but the narrator made it so much better, so I had to listen to both.

Southern charm

this is a sweet romance with a mystery thrown in. you will fall in love with the characters and cute community very quickly!

Great book. Great Read.

Great book!!! Such a fun read. I hate that there are only two available. Loved it.

One Problem with Narration

For the most part I am enjoying this story, and the narrator has a sweet and likable voice and a pleasant accent. However, the narrator's cadence is confusing to me and it just doesn't fit the words as they are written. She stresses words at random in a sing-song way, and, as a listener, I have to concentrate harder than I should need to just to figure out what the correct cadence should have been.