The Golden Spoon

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“This delicious combination of Clue and The Great British Bake Off kept me turning the pages all night!” —Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Only Murders in the Building meets The Maid in this darkly beguiling locked-room mystery where someone turns up dead on the set of TV’s…

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1 author picked The Golden Spoon as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Leslie Budewitz

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A rare stand-alone cozy mystery, set at a baking competition at a Vermont country estate. Six contestants, each distinct and intriguing, a hostess with a secret, and a judge the rest love to hate.

As a writer, I admire the clear, compelling flow of the story, even as we start with a prologue, move back four days, wrap up in less than a week, then ice the cake with an epilogue a year later. Add the shift between the hostess’s third-person narration and the contestants’ first-person voices, stir in our knowledge that someone’s been killed but not who, and the…

From Leslie's 3 favorite reads in 2023.