Nothing Bundt Trouble

Nothing Bundt Trouble is the eleventh Bakeshop Mystery by Ellie Alexander, published in 2020. Juliet "Jules" Capshaw has her staff at Torte ready for the tourist rush of another Oregon Shakespeare Festival season, and is moving back into the house she grew up in.

Sorting through her deceased father's belongings, she finds a long-forgotten dossier detailing one of the most contentious cases in Ashland's history: a hit-and-run in 1988 that killed a stage actor, witnessed by her father Will and his friend Doug. What her father recorded doesn't match the story the town settled on, and Jules starts pulling at a thread thirty years old.

It is one of the more personal entries in the series — the cold case is her father's — while keeping the cosy shape readers come for: Ashland, the festival, the bakeshop, and no gore.