Killer Cupcakes Lexy Baker Cozy Mystery Series Book 1 edition by Leighann Dobbs Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Things are going great for Lexy Baker. She's finally opened her dream bakery, gotten rid of her cheating boyfriend and settled into her grandmothers house with her perky dog Sprinkles at her side.
But her blissful life doesn't last long. When her ex boyfriend is found poisoned with cupcakes from her bakery, Lexy finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation headed up by her hunky neighbor detective Jack Perillo.
With the help of a gang of iPad toting, would-be detective grandmothers, Lexy decides to take it upon herself to find the real murderer in order to clear her name and get her bakery back in business.
As things heat up on the murder trail, in the kitchen and between Lexy and the hunky detective, it's a race against time to put the real murderer behind bars and get back to baking.
Will Lexy get her man?
>> Includes the recipe for Lexy's famous cupcake tops!
(This is book 1 in the Lexy Baker Culinary Cozy Mystery Series with Recipes, but you don't have to read them in order if you don't want too!)
Killer Cupcakes Lexy Baker Cozy Mystery Series Book 1 edition by Leighann Dobbs Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
I barely started this before I had to put it down. It's just too illogical. I didn't even notice the grammer issues other reviewers mentioned. I was too stuck on the idea of a baker selecting stilletos to spend the day baking in, not to mention her coming in at opening time and then cleaning. A baker has to go in early to start everything so the business people can stop in at 6 or 7am and grab a box to go. Her helper/friend hadn't been there long enough to make enough fresh pastries and had only made one thing anyway. And the shop would have been cleaned the afternoon before by her afternoon employees. (She wouldn't be able to work a whole day after baking all the wee hours of the morning.) Where did all the pastries come from she had to move to clean if no one came in early enoght to make them? And why would the cops question a girlfriend from two years ago? And their first idea would be someone bought the cupcakes and added poison not that the baker had done it. I love fantasy and I put aside reality quite a bit but there still has to be some logic to a plot. I just couldn't read this book.Product details
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Killer Cupcakes Lexy Baker Cozy Mystery Series Book 1 edition by Leighann Dobbs Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
I have read the first 8 books of the Lexy Baker series. I do enjoy the series but just can't read any more. The story line is fun, and the mysteries are good but, unlike other self published cozy series that I have read, the quality of the writing leaves much to be desired.
It seems that the author cannot describe any of Lexy's emotions other than to talk about what her stomach is doing or what her heart is doing. I am tired of reading about how Lexy's stomach clenched, or twisted, or flip flopped; or how her heart did the same. These descriptions appear at least once every couple of pages. Surely there is a wide world of descriptions for how someone feels other than by saying what their stomach or heart is doing?
And, the quality of editing is very poor. In one book, someone needed to "diffuse" a bomb. That should be "defuse" a bomb, which the author and all her editors should know. Or how about when someone tried to "hone in" (push his way into) to a group of people? That should be "horn in" as the writer and all her editors should know. It is "horn in" as in using a shoe horn to "squeeze into" something, not "hone" as to sharpen or polish something.
So, what with all the descriptions of what Lexy's stomach is doing and what with all the poor editing of phrases and homonyms, I can't stand to read any more of these books. I think it is inappropriate to publish books with so many mistakes and then have a note at the end of each one asking the readers to submit notifications to her about the mistakes in her books. There should be no mistakes to start with. If you enjoy the bakery format for cozy mysteries, try the Oxford Tearoom series. You will find them to be well written.
Meanwhile, I would read the rest the Lexy Baker series only if they were either free or 99¢ each, but I would not pay more. If I were to pay the amount that she is actually asking for her books, I would do so only if she were to hire a proper book editor.
Okay, here's our heroine Her ex-boyfriend is murdered, clues point toward her, the police are investigating her, yet when someone suggests to her that she's being framed and they should think of a list of suspects, she thinks it sounds "overly dramatic."
Overly dramatic? It's MURDER. And she's the number one suspect.
She continues Then again, with the bakery closed, they had nothing better to do, so why not?
I could forgive this, even cheer her on, if she was being deadpan and droll instead of just meaning every word of it because she hasn't got either the smarts or the imagination to realize she's in deep trouble. Seriously, how are we supposed to feel any suspense about her supposedly frightening predicament if she doesn't? As I said about another story of this author's, it's as if the writer knows none of this is real, there's no real murder, so why should the characters worry? But that's wrong. There has been a real life murder--all suspense and tension has been brutally slaughtered.
Okay, here's the male lead He takes his top suspect (our heroine, Lexy) out to lunch and gives her the facts (including ones she has no business knowing) of the case so far, and then he "mentally kicked himself for not being more entertaining" in his presentation of the facts. Is that part of a cop's job now? And then he runs her home and French kisses her. Is that also a new technique for detectives when dealing with a top suspect in a murder investigation?
Okay, now we're at the 65% mark and our heroine is finally catching on "This WAS serious business. After all, someone had knocked her out!" They also tossed her house.
Unfortunately, our hero is NOT catching on. He finds her knocked out, sees her house has been tossed and has evidence it was probably done by the killer. So what does he do? What any bright detective would do. He leaves her there, probably concussed, and doesn't bring in a CSI team to search for evidence of whodunnit (and the evidence was there, as we discover).
We're at the climax now. Our heroine goes to meet the killer by herself to get a confession (she can't go to the cops, her bakery might be shut down for a few more hours if she does!!! Actually, she's likely to be taken off the suspect list and her bakery allowed to open again immediately, but that's just logic talking and our heroine has no use for such things). She takes along in her purse a can of pepper spray "in case things got ugly." Has she got anything in there for stupid?
Okay, here's our murderer Eyes wild, face a mask of rage, "No one crosses me...You saw what happened to Kevin when he tried it. He got his and now you'll get yours, too!" Is it just me or does everyone else hear the Wicked Witch of the East "....and your little dog, Toto, too!"
What about the Ladies Detective Club old ladies solving murders. Cute, right? The only problem is, only their ringleader has even a smidgeon of personality. The rest are interchangeable blue-rinse clones with the same purses and iPads. What a wasted opportunity for some much needed quirkiness and originality.
The only surprise, the only hint of originality in this story was finding out who the long-haired "darling" was that our heroine was so jealous about.
And that's what earns the one star.
I barely started this before I had to put it down. It's just too illogical. I didn't even notice the grammer issues other reviewers mentioned. I was too stuck on the idea of a baker selecting stilletos to spend the day baking in, not to mention her coming in at opening time and then cleaning. A baker has to go in early to start everything so the business people can stop in at 6 or 7am and grab a box to go. Her helper/friend hadn't been there long enough to make enough fresh pastries and had only made one thing anyway. And the shop would have been cleaned the afternoon before by her afternoon employees. (She wouldn't be able to work a whole day after baking all the wee hours of the morning.) Where did all the pastries come from she had to move to clean if no one came in early enoght to make them? And why would the cops question a girlfriend from two years ago? And their first idea would be someone bought the cupcakes and added poison not that the baker had done it. I love fantasy and I put aside reality quite a bit but there still has to be some logic to a plot. I just couldn't read this book.
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