Jealousy Filled Donuts (Deputy Donut Mystery #3)

by Ginger Bolton

Overview

When a firecracker becomes a murder weapon, Emily Westhill pursues a killer with a short fuse …
 
It is a truth universally acknowledged—cops and donuts go together. Exhibit A: Deputy Donut Café, owned and operated by detective's widow Emily Westhill and her father-in-law, the retired police chief of Fallingbrook, Wisconsin. Named after Emily's adored and adorable tabby, the donut shop is a favorite among cops, firemen, and EMTs, as well as tourists and townspeople. So when Fallingbrook needs donuts for their Fourth of July picnic, Emily's shop gets deputized.
 
But a twisted killer has found another use for Emily's treats. At the picnic, a firecracker is hidden in a stack of raspberry-filled donuts and aimed at the unwitting queen of the festivities. When it explodes, she is killed. Having her jelly donuts involved puts Emily in a sticky situation, and when a shady shutterbug tries to frame her with incriminating photos, she finds herself in quite a jam. To preserve her freedom and her shop's reputation, Emily needs to solve this case—before the fuse-lighting felon goes off again …
 
Praise for Goodbye Cruller World
 
“Food scenes tantalize with description of single-origin coffee as well as classic and trendy donuts—solid recipes included.”
—Publishers Weekly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496711915
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	08/27/2019
Series:	Deputy Donut Series , #3
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	83,258
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.21(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Ginger Bolton is the pseudonym of an Agatha-nominated cozy mystery author. She is the author of Survival of the Fritters and Goodbye Cruller World in the Deputy Donut Mystery series, and is very fond of donuts, coffee, and coffee shops that encourage patrons to linger and chat. Ginger lives in a rural area surrounded by cozy villages. When she isn’t reading, writing, or daydreaming while gazing out windows, she walks her dogs, plays an electric piano (she uses earphones so as not to frighten the wildlife), creates minor disasters in her kitchen, and, very occasionally, takes part in local amateur theater productions, which, intended or not, become comedies.

Editorial Reviews

07/29/2019

Set in Fallingbrook, Wis., Bolton’s charming third Deputy Donut mystery (after 2018’s Goodbye Cruller World) opens on the morning of the Fourth of July when Deputy Donut shopkeeper Emily Westhill is supposed to drive the festivities’ king and queen in the town parade. Emily ends up with the duke and duchess, however, after the queen, Taylor Wishbard, turns up her nose at Emily’s restored Ford. That evening during a picnic, someone aims a firework, hidden in a batch of Emily’s donuts, at the snooty Taylor, killing her. When photographer Philip Landsdowner accuses Emily of lighting the firework, and Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation detective Rex Clobar considers her a suspect, Emily turns sleuth. Could it have been Taylor’s best friend or her old boyfriend? Maybe the hairdresser Taylor maligned or Landsdowner or someone from the ice cream shop where Taylor worked? Bolton keeps the reader guessing throughout. Yummy donut recipes round out a whodunit (or is it a whodonut?) sure to please cozy fans. Agent: John Talbot, Talbot Fortune Agency. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

2019-05-27
Baker Emily Westhill (Goodbye Cruller World, 2018, etc.) whips up a deadly delight that derails her local Independence Day celebration.

Since the death of Alec, her police detective husband, Emily's been absorbed with one goal: Making her cafe, Deputy Donut, a success. So she's thrilled at the chance to drive her vintage Ford Fordor in the annual Fallingbrook Fabulous Fourth Festivities parade. Festival queen Taylor Wishbard, who's considerably less thrilled at the prospect of greeting her fans in a tiny car painted to look like a police cruiser, insists on being chauffeured in her own convertible instead. All too soon, snippy Taylor gets hers. She's skewered by a rocket hidden in a stack of donuts during the annual municipal fireworks display. The mishap throws Emily right into the path of Brent Fynee, her late husband's hunky ex-partner, who's called in to investigate. Brent has an eye for Emily, but instead of bonding them, the grief they share has always pulled them apart. Now Brent has plenty of reasons to find his way to Emily's door. Too bad she's out chasing Taylor's killer. As their one-step-forward, one-step-back relationship competes for oxygen with the murder mystery, no one's the winner.

Despite its pyrotechnic setting, Bolton's latest food cozy is a misfire.

Kirkus Reviews

"[Durante] She is a narrator that I have listened to before having narrated over 300 books, and I enjoy her performance. She has a pleasant reading voice for the basic narration of the book and gives the characters recognizable voices." ---Carla Loves to Read

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