A Cup of Flour, A Pinch of Death: 08/26/24

A Cup of Flour, A Pinch of Death by Valerie Burns and Jasmin Walker (Narrator) (2024) is the third book in the Baker Street mystery series. Maddy is enjoying her new life running Aunt Octavia's bakery but her new life might be threatened by the ghosts of her past.

Maddy is under suspicion again by Trooper Bob who thinks she's killed the woman who broke up her engagement. It doesn't help that her body was found in the bakery. Of course, now, Maddy and her irregulars know about the tunnels. There's probably an entire network of them.

At the crux of things is Aunt Octavia's notes about someone who was up to no good. Of course Octavia is dead, murdered before the first book. But whatever evil was out there is still trying to keep Octavia silent.

The solution to this novel ties up loose threads from the previous two. This type of ending is hard to pull off but it works here. It works because of clues sprinkled throughout the previous two books. An observant, genre savvy mystery reader will have seen the connections. It justifies hunches I had in book one.

My only worry is that this book so tightly wraps up the series that this one might be the last one. If it isn't, the fourth book will have to be very different than the first three. Or perhaps longer mysteries stemming multiple books might become a feature of this series.

Five stars

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