A sharp and tangy culinary mystery featuring Tish Tarragon. Can Tish beat the curse of the cherry pie to win first prize at the Virginia Commonwealth Bake-Off?
When literary caterer Letitia 'Tish' Tarragon's friend and star baker at Cookin' the Books cafe, Celestine Rufus, pulls out of the prestigious Virginia Commonwealth Bake-Off, an anxious
Tish
reluctantly takes her place. Will her
signature bake
, a frangipane
cherry
pie
, be up to the grade?
As the bake-off gets underway, Tish's worries increase when she learns that two contestants from the previous two
competitions
also had cherry pies on their menus . . . and both women
died
suddenly
before making their bakes.
Amid
bitter
rivalries
, simmering
jealousy
and the bakers' insatiable appetite for winning, is the
curse
of
the
about to
strike
again
?