Winnie Archer

Bread Over Troubled Water Winnie Archer

National bestselling author Winnie Archer brings the heat with her latest installment in her Bread Shop Mystery series, as photographer Ivy Culpepper is forced to put the next chapter of her life on hold when one of Yeast of Edens best customers is found dead

Photographer Ivy Culpepper is soon to make a home with her husband-to-be in the California beach town of Santa Sofiabut the Yeast of Eden bakery remains her second home. Its not just a place to work, but a community. And now one member of the community has been murdered . . .

A regular who used Yeast of Eden as a workspace, Josh Prentiss always turned heads with his startlingly good looks and thousand-watt smile. But Ivy cant help noticing one morning that he seems distracted and off his game. Later, during a visit to the park where she and Miguel plan to hold their engagement partywith plenty of baked goods on the menuher rescue pug, Agatha, sniffs out Josh lying in a bed of poppiesscone cold dead.
 
Theres no reason for Ivy to get involved. Shes busy enough holding down the fort as the shops owner, Olaya, cares for her recently orphaned niece, not to mention the stress when a new employee is fired and storms out in a rage.  Then a band of rabble-rousers starts picketing the bakery, claiming that Olayas sourdough roll is what killed Joshand Ivy hears some salacious gossip about her beloved boss. She doesnt think theres a grain of truth to the seedy rumorsbut to prove it, shell have to start sleuthing . . .