Bakeries and Buffoonery by Elizabeth Pantley

Item: Bakeries and Buffoonery
Rating: 5
Author: karenbaron

Posted February 19, 2023 by karenbaron in Mystery, Review, Series / 1 Comment

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Bakeries and Buffoonery

by Elizabeth Pantley

Series: Magical Mystery Book Club #4
Series Rating:

Published by Inc. on February 15, 2023
Genres: Cozy Paranormal Animal Mystery
Pages: 310
Format: ebook
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Also in this series: Shifting and Shenanigans, Vampires and Villains, Cowboys and Chaos, Genies and Gibberish, Secrets and Scallywags, Hexes and Hooligans, Sprites and Scuttlebutt, Meditation and Mischief

It’s a magical book club! When this group chooses a book, magic happens. The mystery comes to life, and they find themselves part of the story. To exit the book and get back home, they need to solve the mystery and reach The End.

This time, the club chooses a book called The Great Cake Rivalry, because, well … cake! They read the back cover and it’s unanimous. So off they go into another grand adventure into a town aptly named Frosting.

Frosting is a rural town in an idyllic setting. The people live quiet lives most of the year. But in the spring, things change. The Annual Cake Competition becomes the focus of every man, woman, and child. They take this competition seriously. The cakes are spectacular. The festival is fabulous. For a week there are contests featuring all kinds of cakes. The people of the community become official tasters and vote for the winning cakes in each category.

The grand finale is a display of finely decorated cakes, made by the town’s bakeries. The winner of the best design receives a prize package that would make any baker dizzy.

Sadly, this event has been tainted. Once a year, each one different, but all somehow related to this event, a person is murdered. The main investigator is stumped, but that could be because he’s an inept buffoon.

Can the book club help the people of this community figure out who is causing this disturbing pattern of deaths, and stop another murder from happening? Can they figure out why some of the citizens dress so oddly, and why they always wear those unique backpacks? All while they fill themselves to the brim with cake, of course.

Bakeries and Buffoonery by Elizabeth Pantley sees the book club going into a small town to save their cake competition from ending in carnage.

Will the book club stop the evil mastermind from causing harm to Frosting?

The Book Club

Paige, Glo, and the rest of the club members decide to pop into a book with an annual cake competition because it involves cake, and who doesn’t love cake? Well, the person who keeps ruining the competition almost every year except last year. They all hop into the book and get to snooping in their ways. We find out some new and interesting things about some of our members. Mollie is a hoot when it comes to learning new things and her limitations as well. I love all the club members, as they each bring something to the club that makes it a great read. Another fabulous thing about this book is how they all tried to make their cakes the best for the competition.

The Mystery

Someone, or something, in Frosting, doesn’t like the whole cake competition spectacle and wants things to go back to the way it was before. The Book Club has been tasked to stop this person from ruining another year. I have to say, this time, Ms. Pantley got me. I didn’t think the person who was unmasked was the actual person until everything clicked into place. Frosting was a pretty neat town, and all the inhabitants were excellent.

Five Stars

I am giving five stars to Bakeries and Buffoonery by Elizabeth Pantley and recommending it to anyone that loves a superb cozy paranormal mystery. Ms. Pantley keeps me wanting more of both this series and her other series as well. I can’t wait to dive into her next mystery.

Magical Mystery Book Club Series

Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of Bakeries and Buffoonery by Elizabeth Pantley.

Until the next time,

Happy Reading!

About Elizabeth Pantley

Elizabeth Pantley is the international bestselling author of The No-Cry Sleep Solution and twelve other books for parents, published in over twenty languages.

She simultaneously writes well-loved cozy mysteries: The Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic book series and the Magical Mystery Book Club series.

Elizabeth lives in the Pacific Northwest, the gorgeous inspiration for the setting in many of her books.