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Perfect for fans of Ellie Alexander and Lucy Burdette, Rose Betancourts series debut is a culinary treat sure to charm.
Living in Paris, Kentucky, and having a sidekick cat named Pepe le Pew gives Marci Beaucoups life a certain je ne sais quoi. Combining her love of baking and France, Marci opened La Belle Patisserie to bring her small Southern hometown a bit of French flair and lots of croissants. Everything is sunshine and macarons at the bakery until her landlord calls to tell her shes selling the property. Marcis relieved to hear that if the top bidder, an enchanting Frenchman named Antoine Dubois, gets the property, hell renew her bakerys lease. Charmed by Antoine, Marci figures this development isnt half bad and sees a handsome new landlord in her futurebut then Antoines estranged ex-girlfriend Kelly turns up dead in front of her bakery. Sacrebleu!
Everyone calls Marcis pastries to die for, but nobodys actually died at La Belle Patisserie before. Antoine quickly becomes the main suspect to everyone in Parisincluding to womanizing detective Maverick Malone. Who else would have killed Kelly but the ex-boyfriend she was just seen fighting with on the day of her death?
Marci finds out from her landlord that if Antoine is arrested, his purchase of her building will fall throughand her landlord will sell to developers instead, who plan to demolish the building and construct a strip mall in its place. Enamored with Antoine and with her patisserie dreams hanging in the balance, Marci is determined to prove Maverick and the rest of Paris wrong and find the true killer before Antoine winds up in jailand she has to say au revoir to her bakery.
Now Marci finds herself mixed up in the murder investigation, and she must find the killer before her half-baked theories result in her untimely death.
Author: Rose Betancourt
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Published: 07/11/2023
Series: A Paris Kentucky Bakery Mystery
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781643859767
Language: English
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