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Death Gone A-Rye
by Winnie Archer
Series: Bread Shop Mystery #6
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Published by Kensington on April 27, 2021
Genres: Mystery
Pages: 272
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In the Northern California seaside town of Santa Sofia, a killer is trying to get a rise out of baker’s apprentice Ivy Culpepper . . .
Vincent van Dough focaccia is being touted on Instagram as the best thing since sliced bread. By strategically placing chives, olives, and yellow peppers to look like poppies and sunflowers, bakers create a mouthwatering masterpiece in the style of the great postimpressionist painter. At Yeast of Eden, where bread making has always been an art, they’re baking their own version for the school district’s Spring Fling.
But one person won’t be tasting the Mexican bakery’s latest specialty. Ambitious school board president Nessa Renchrik has been murdered. Like the rest of this close-knit community, Ivy is shocked. But she’s just as surprised to discover her beau—restaurateur Miguel Baptista—had his own fling with Nessa back in the day and now the police have this half-baked notion he might have killed her. It’s up to Ivy, her boss Olaya Solis, and eighty-six-years-young Penelope Branford to separate the wheat from the chaff to determine who the real culprit is . . .
INCLUDES RECIPES!
Death Gone a Rye by Winnie Archer is about an amateur sleuth trying to make sure that the police catch the right person.
Will Ivy be able to keep the new Captain York in line with finding the real killer?
Ivy Culpepper
Ivy Culpepper is our sleuth. She is an amateur at both sleuthing and bread baking. Ivy is also trying to get back into taking photographs for a living. She gets wrapped up in this case by her best friend, Emmaline Davis-Culpepper, and that her boyfriend is being typecasted for the murder. That right there is what really gets Ivy into trying to solve this case and providing the evidence to this new guy. Ivy is such a great sleuth and a good storyteller. I loved everything about her and especially why she wants to help out. The love Ivy has for her small town is so real, and I can definitely get it. I like Ivy because she seems relatable while also trying to solve a murder because of a loved one being on the line, and they may potentially go to jail.
The Mystery
Ivy never saw the dead body or even went to the crime scene until way after the fact. In reality, Ivy heard about it at her brother’s wedding, to you guessed it, the sheriff, Emmaline. Ivy didn’t want to investigate this murder, but her best friend asked her to, and then her boyfriend Miguel is being harassed by the cops. So she has to investigate to clear him. Ivy and I felt like we were playing whack-a-mole while figuring out who actually did it. The reason for that is that the school board president wasn’t well-liked by a lot of people. Made the suspect board majorly too big.
I didn’t think it was who did it, and I am still processing who actually did it. Ivy had some help from two little old ladies who always kept me laughing. One of them was her old English teacher who taught many people, and the other is the lady who owns the bread shop that Ivy works at. These two old ladies kept Ivy on her toes while also keeping the investigation fun.
Four Stars
Death Gone a Rye by Winnie Archer is a hoot of a book and kept me guessing throughout the whole thing about who the actual culprit was. Let’s just say that Ms. Archer has done a fabulous job of weaving together all those clever red herrings. I kept thinking that it was one guy until something else popped up that made me think it was that person. I truly felt like I was playing whack-a-mole with these herrings. Ivy is such a great character, and I can see a lot of potential in this series. Ms. Archer can definitely weave a story like a good piece of bread. My rating for Death Gone a Rye by Winnie Archer is four stars, plus I am recommending it to anyone that enjoys cozy mysteries.
Don’t forget about those recipes in the back of the book. The recipes are Van Dough Focaccia Bread Art, Miguel’s Savory Sausage, Kale, and Potato Soup, Olaya’s Hot Cross Buns, and Rye Pumpernickel Rolls. They sound pretty good.
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About Winnie Archer
The indefatigable Winnie Archer is a middle school teacher by day and a writer by night. Born in a beach town in California, she now lives in Colorado. She fantasizes about spending summers writing in quaint, cozy locales, has a love/hate relationship with both yoga and chocolate, adores pumpkin spice lattes, is devoted to her five kids and husband, and can’t believe she’s lucky enough to be living the life of her dreams
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2021 Beachcomber Mystery Reading Challenge
- 2021 Cloak & Dagger
- 2021 Craving the Cozies
- 2021 Cruisin’ thru the Cozies
- 2021 Goodreads Reading Challenge
- 2021 Medical Examiner’s Mystery Reading Challenge
- 2021 New Release Reading Challenge
Thank you so much for reading and reviewing. I’m glad you liked the book, whack-a-mole, and all 🙂