Janelle was going to write an article about a local bake off when she encounters one of her old best friends, who had become famous. Now she has disappeared. Can Janelle find her before the bake-off starts?
Janelle Parker starts off her day at her magazine business. She gets a little bit tired of all the noise and heads home. There she cools off and thinks about all the wonderful times she has had with her friends. Then she eats dinner and goes to bed.
Most of the story is about mundane, day to day activities until she goes on vacation to the bake-off where she encounters strange characters such as Jasper Justerpen, who has wild hair and bulging eyes and seems to think there is something sinister going on at the bake-off.
Then she meets Melissa Wright, a southern bell who has beautiful red hair and a neck like a swan’s and she is making a wedding cake for the bake-off. Her entire family is there including her cousins. She doesn’t seem suspicious at all.
There are other characters she meets that doesn’t seem to impress her until she sees her old friend, Carrie Sheldeon, who says something brisk to her and wanders off. They used to be really close. Janelle brushes this aside and turns her attention on her writing because she’s been mingling with the crowd instead of writing.
Strange things begin to happen. Someone’s crème bruele catches fire. Then a tart winds up missing. Then someone’s barbecue sauce is too spicy for the judges. Who is doing all these things?
Janelle decides to spruce up her character and becomes a detective. She wanders around the bake-off, looking for clues, and finally deduces someone is after Carrie. Carrie is the most important figure at the bake-off. She is also secretly one of the judges. Janelle pulls her aside to have a heart to heart and realizes the culprit is none-other than the paparazzi, who sabotaged other people’s cooking so the headlines would make the front page on the Enquirer.
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