{"product_id":"the-bakers-alibi-rhoshell-baker-9798259422353","title":"The Baker's Alibi: A Small-Town Cozy Mystery with Bite","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe came to Cedar Falls to hide. She didn't expect to find a killer.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHazel Winthrop was a rising star in New York's pastry scene-until her mentor was found dead with a knife in her chest. The evidence pointed at Hazel. The press convicted her in the court of public opinion. And her fiancé, a reporter, wrote a bestselling book about her downfall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, at forty-two, she's fled to Cedar Falls, Wisconsin, to run the bakery her late aunt Bea left her. The town is small, the winters are cold, and no one asks questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut someone already knows she's coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA mysterious scone-maple-walnut, still warm-waits for her on the counter. A threatening note warns her away. And Sheriff Sam Killian, a man with cold eyes and a silver watch, watches her from across the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen one of the town's beloved elderly residents is found dead in Hazel's walk-in cooler-with Hazel's knife in her chest-she must clear her name before she's sent to prison for a murder she didn't commit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the help of Gertie, a sharp-tongued old woman who carries a cast-iron skillet everywhere she goes, and Lena, a young deputy who's tired of her corrupt boss, Hazel digs into the town's darkest secret: the summer of 1998, when the sheriff's wife drowned in the lake with her hands tied behind her back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe truth will set her free. But first, it will break her heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for fans of Joanne Fluke's Hannah Swensen series and Ellery Adams's Charmed Pie Shoppe mysteries.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eButter, Sugar, Murder - Book 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rhoshell Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798259422353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d","brand":"Rhoshell Baker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084330213631,"sku":"9798259422353","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-bakers-alibi-rhoshell-baker-9798259422353","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}