{"product_id":"frosted-with-malice-a-r-lena-9791282262255","title":"Frosted with Malice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book is part 2 of the Maple Creek Bakery Mistery series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe built the cake. She didn't expect it to become evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Cora Rossi-Ashford accepts the commission to create a five-tier champagne buttercream masterpiece for the Harrington-Thorne wedding, she expects the biggest challenge to be the hazelnut praline. She doesn't expect to find the groom dead in the walk-in cooler the morning of the ceremony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Maple Creek sheriff's department has a theory. The groom's business partner had motive, opportunity, and a financial dispute that had been building for months. But Cora noticed things at the rehearsal dinner that don't fit the obvious answer - a phone call overheard in a hallway, a door seal that didn't quite catch, a pharmacist sister-of-the-bride whose composure seemed less like calm and more like conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCora isn't a detective. She's a baker. But she pays attention, and paying attention in Maple Creek has a way of leading somewhere uncomfortable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith help from her social-media-savvy assistant Peggy, the town's formidable elder Agnes Whitmore, and a tabby cat named Biscotti who turns out to have better instincts than most humans, Cora follows the trail from a Boston hotel dinner to a Portland pharmacy to the most precisely calculated crime she's ever encountered - one where the method was medicine, the motive was justice, and the answer changes everything she thought she understood about what it means to stop something terrible from happening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wedding cake for eighty-three people. A murder with no obvious villain. A small town that holds more history than it shows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFROSTED WITH MALICE is the second book in the Maple Creek Bakery Mystery series - a cozy mystery full of warmth, food, complex characters, and the particular complications of small-town life where everyone knows everyone's grandmother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. R. Lena\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9791282262255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e A. R. Lena\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d","brand":"A. R. Lena","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665628369151,"sku":"9791282262255","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/frosted-with-malice-a-r-lena-9791282262255","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}