The Golden Spoon

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… show more.