Under Cozy Covers Book Review of Buttercream Bump Off by Jenn McKinlay

Buttercream Bump Off by Jenn McKinlay

From Goodreads.com
Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura's Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery is gearing up for Valentine's Day. Unfortunately someone has iced Baxter Malloy on his first date with Mel's mother. Now Mom's a suspect, and Mel and Angie need to find time around frosting to dig into the man's shady past and discover who served him his just desserts.

My Take:  I read the first book in this series when it first came out then bought this book which is the second in the series and promptly forgot about it.  Now there ar four other books in this series and I have some serious catching up to do.  I immediately bought the second book in this series because I really liked the first book. Here is the link to my review for Sprinkled with Murder.

In this book Melanie's mother goes out on a date with a very successful business man.  While she is changing her clothes he is murdered.  Melanie's mother becomes the prime suspect of course but she quickly becomes second when the son of the man becomes the prime suspect because they have a bad relationship.  The son is a drummer of a huge rock band and starts to date Angie.  Tate and Melanie are concerned because Roach is the prime suspects.  There are also plenty of other suspects as the man made all his money off of other people and scammed them and alot of 
people lost alot of money.  This book had some funny parts which mostly involved their interaction with other bakeries.  I will be trying to catch up with the series.  














This Book Was taken from my personal Library

Sprinkle with Murder by Jenn McKinlay

Sprinkle with Murder by Jenn McKinlay

From Amazon.com:
Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. But their first big client is a nightmare. She's a bridezilla who wants 500 custom cupcakes for her wedding.

When Mel stumbles upon the bride-to-be dead-by-cupcake, she becomes the prime suspect. To save themselves and their business, the ladies need to find the real murderer, before the cupcake killer ices someone else.

My Take:
This is the first in a new series by Jenn Mckinlay.  I liked the show DC Cupcakes and thought that this sounded a bit like that so I thought I would give it a try.  Boy am I glad I did.  I have already bought the next book in the series   .

Melanie and her friend Angie have opened a cupcake bakery with some financial help from their best friend Tate.  To help them get off to a big start Tate convinces his fiancee Christie Stevens , a  designer, to have Fairy Tale Bakery make the cupcakes for their wedding.  The only thing is that Christie puts other bridezillas to shame.  She insists that everything for the wedding be original and that she get the copyright. 

When Melanie goes to meet Christie to find out what she thinks of the cupcakes, Melanie finds Christie dead in her showroom with one of the cupcakes laying beside her.  Melanie becomes the prime suspect so she and her partner must find out who the real killer is.

I had an idea who the killer might have been fairly early on in the book but I didn't know for sure until it was revealed in the book.  New suspects kept being found and they each had good reasons to commit the crime. 

I like the characters in this book and hope the playfulness between them continues.  I would like to see if potential romances play out.  

I look forward to reading the next book in this series.

This book was from my personal library.