The cupcake baker
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The owners of the cupcake shop, Angie and Mel seem to be quite desperate and willing to increase the sale of cupcakes in their shop. In the opening sequence of the plot of the novel, the arrival of the summer season is depicted and the sales of the cupcakes in the ‘Fairy Tale Cupcakes’ bakery shop below zero, as usual. The plot of this novel continues to feature the main characters in the form of Angie DeLaura and Mel Cooper, just like the previous novels of the series. It was released by the Berkley publishing house in the year 2012.
THE CUPCAKE BAKER SERIES
One of the initial novels of the Cupcake Bakery Mysteries series written by author Jean McKinlay was titled ‘Red Velvet Revenge’. They need to race against time and prove their innocence if they want to start selling their cupcakes once again life before. Because of becoming the prime suspect in the murder of the bride, the co-owners hardly have any time to save their bakery shop. Now, Angela and Melanie are required to work together in order to uncover the real killer or else, their business is going to suffer a huge loss. However, the bride is discovered dead after eating one of the cupcakes and eventually, Melanie Cooper becomes the prime suspect in her murder.
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As soon as they open their bakery shop, they get their first order of 500 custom made cupcakes from their first client, who is described as an about to be a bride for her wedding. The main characters of the Cupcake Bakery Mysteries series, Angela DeLaura and Melanie Cooper are introduced for the first time in the debut novel of the series, as the co-owners of the bakery shop, the ‘Fairy Tale Cupcakes’. She is expected to release a couple of novels in the series very soon as she has finished with their writing works. Author Jean McKinlay is still working on the next novels of the series as the series is currently going on. This was followed by the other novels of the series as well in the successive years. Author Jean McKinlay began writing the series in the year 2010, when she wrote and published the first novel of the series titled ‘Sprinkle with Murder’. This scenario continues throughout the series in each and every novel of the series. In the meantime, they also continue to deal with the investigative works that keep coming their way. With their sheer determination and dedication, Mel Cooper and Angie DeLaura once again become successful in running their bakery shop smoothly and selling their famous cupcake to their satisfied customers. Together, they start investigating the cases on their own and solve them one after the other as they turn up in their lives. Soon, their famous cupcakes also tend to lose their taste as several dead bodies begin to turn up in their bakery shop.Īngie and Mel seem to lose all hopes of maintaining a smooth sailing of the shop, but then they decide to take the matters involving the dead bodies into their own hands. However, as their bakery shop becomes a little bit successful, they begin to face difficulties in running the shop. Starting and running the bakery shop is the dream job of Mel Angie, and they put in a lot of hard work and dedication to make it a success. The two characters are depicted as the owners and partners of a bakery shop called as the ‘Fairy Tale Cupcakes’ located in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. All the novels of the Cupcake Bakery Mysteries series feature the main characters in the form of Angela DeLaura and Melanie Cooper, who are often referred to as Angie and Mel. The 8th novel of the series is also completed and is ready to be published soon in the coming days of the year 2016. There is a total of 8 novels in the series, of which seven have already been published between the years 20. The Cupcake Bakery Mysteries series is a series of thriller and cozy mystery novels written by one of the popular American writers and the New York Times bestselling author named Jenn McKinlay.