Killer Cupcakes

 

This book came up as one of the choices on BookBub and it sounded kind of interesting, and was only $3, so I ordered it.  It promised to be The Golden Girls meet Jessica Fletcher, which could be an interesting story.

In stars, I give it 2.  The good thing is it's short (only 120 pages) and could be read in a couple of hours.  It's very plain and reads like a new writer.  Lexy owns a bakery and when she goes to work in the morning, the police come to question her about her ex-boyfriend, who has been killed by eating poisoned cupcake tops.  

Throughout the story, the killer has brief chapters where you learn what he/she is doing (a pronoun is never used, so we don't know if it's a man or a woman)

Lexy just happens to live next door to a handsome policeman who is heading the murder investigation and who is attracted to Lexy, as she is to him.  (I don't read romances, so this relationship didn't do anything for me)

Lexy also has a grandmother, living in a senior center, who, with her three friends, like to solve mysteries, but they don't really help all that much, other than to continue to suggest Lexy and the police officer date.

It was an OK book and I didn't know the killer until near the end of the story.  The book is one in a series of three or four books, but I won't be reading the next ones.