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Everly Swan wants nothing more than to decorate Sun, Sand, and Tea for its first holiday season, but her great-aunt Fran has decided to run for mayor against a long-standing rival.\n\nWhen the opposing candidate is found dead days before the first debate, Fran becomes the obvious suspect, and the town's Christmas cheer curdles into suspicion. Everly starts asking questions of her own, convinced her aunt is innocent, while a rare blizzard threatens to bury whatever evidence is left.\n\nThe investigation puts Everly back in the path of Detective Grady Hays, and draws in her aunts, her café regulars, and half of Charm. 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That joy quickly turns to dread when members of Peridale's gardening society, The Green Fingers, start dying one by one.\n\nJulia is enlisted to bake macarons for the magazine's garden competition celebration - the one bake that has always given her trouble. 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What her father recorded doesn't match the story the town settled on, and Jules starts pulling at a thread thirty years old.\n\nIt 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.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kxejr9ppmqpbtf5ewkz79fd6.jpg?v=a9b1aa94dd","LZOy5]%LIptQ{dV@WEV[+Eaejwae",2020,320,[249],{"id":250,"slug":251,"name":252},"01kptevvdq3b14q984x3b59rzj","ellie-alexander-qxgu","Ellie Alexander",[254,255,256,257,258],{"id":223,"name":224,"slug":225,"is_fiction":18},{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":36,"name":37,"slug":38,"is_fiction":18},{"id":40,"name":41,"slug":42,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},[260],{"id":261,"slug":262,"name":263,"position":264,"is_main_entry":18,"parent_id":7,"parent_slug":7,"parent_name":7},"01kpteztv3sze95hcqmyrpxza3","bakeshop-mystery-bdhz","A Bakeshop Mystery","11.00",{"pace":93,"complexity":7,"audience":95,"mood":266,"themes":269,"setting_period":7,"summary":271,"content_warnings":7},[97,99,267,268],"nostalgic","emotional",[270],"mystery-box","Bakeshop Mystery #11. 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