To Have and to Kill

By: Mary Jane Clark

Narrated by: Isabel Keating

“Clark has perfected the suspense novel.”
—Booklist

New York Times bestselling author and mystery writer par excellence, Mary Jane Clark kicks off her delicious new Wedding Cake mystery series with To Have and To Kill. A tasty departure from her thrillers featuring KEY News television anchor Eliza Blake (Dying for Mercy, It Only Takes a Moment), To Have and To Kill introduces readers to actress-turned-wedding cake decorator Piper Donovan, who discovers that the heat in the pastry kitchen can be hotter—and deadlier—that she ever imagined…and that her creative new enterprise is anything but a piece of cake. Foodies and fans of cable TV’s Amazing Wedding Cakes, as well as Faye Kellerman, Jayne Anne Krentz, and Diana Mott Davidson readers are going to eat this one up!

Good read

Enjoyed this book. It’s a really good mystery without a lot of gore. Surprise ending too.

I love this book. couldn't stop reading

I love this book. couldn't stop reading. I love all of her books and I will never stop loving them.

Speechless for a headline

I feel compelled to write a review for this book. I have so many mixed feelings about it, most of them not good. First, the narrator did a very good job with the voices and emotions. But the writing of the story is a different issue. I almost asked for a refund after I was finished but just have to explain my reactions to this book on various issues.
#1. Why all the details about cooking of various foods? I understand the inclusions about the cake decorating but not the rest...they had no relevance to the story at all (the wines and the various food dishes had nothing to do with the story overall).
#2. For a fairly short book, there were way too many twists and turns in the plots and characters that is was difficult to keep them all straight.
#3. I felt that the story line was kind of choppy with all of the various aspects of lose connections with all of the characters.
#4. There wasn't very much about the love between the bride and groom and way too little about the relationship between Piper and her guy 'friend'-which was left very unresolved. It was almost like a cliff hanger, which I hate.
#5. There were WAY to many characters without getting the reader more involved in the lives of the characters for us to embrace or hate them. Most of the characters lives were left hanging losely in the end.
I personally like books that draw you into the characters lives (especially in a series of books) that leave you anxious to get the next book to embrace them again in more of the events in their lives. This book didn't do that. In fact, if that murderer had killed off more, it would not have devastated me as such an event would in other books. I do like HEA books but am able to enjoy many books that don't have one. This is definitely not an HEA.
I won't be getting more books from this author and will not be recommending it to anyone.

Great book!

Loved this book! Can't wait to listen to the next one in the series. Highly recommend this book to anyone who likes mysteries.

Combination of the characters and killer kept me guessing.

Many red herrings placed at optimal parts of the book. I never guested the killer.