🌟🌟🌟 1/2

An interesting premise, – part competitive cozy-baking tv show, cleverly merged with an Agatha-Christie-like murder mystery. Like the characterizations it is based on, this book has a “folksy niceness”, a clean demarcation of the main players, (each with their idiosyncrasies, secrets, and struggles), and a twisty plot to keep a reader both entertained and intrigued.

As six bakers meet at a remote British mansion for a five-day baking competition, fans of “the Great British Bake off” may find much here to enjoy as contestants and hosts alike align neatly with familiar, pleasant (and perhaps the also uncomfortably unpleasant) recognizable show archetypes.

A great big thank you to the publisher, the author and Netgalley for an ARC of this book. All thoughts presented are my own.