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Summary: humorous novel that has cross-genre appeal
Review: After numerous false starts, plenty of failures, and several times quitting out of boredom, Angle Arnolf has finally found a business that she performs well and that people appreciate. "Commercial Cakes" is doing so well that Angie barely has time to sleep. This frustrates her boyfriend homicide detective Paavo Smith, who after much deliberating, has finally worked up the courage to ask her to marry him.
Every time Paavo begins to propose, Angie is distracted, called to the phone or falls asleep. She ends up hiring two employees who are into the Goth scene while Paavo happens to work on a serial killer case involving Goths. He doesn't know how, but based on experience with his beloved, Paavo expects Angie is going to become involved in his case though he hates it when she places her life in danger.
Joanne Pence writes an ingenious mystery that is both hilarious and deadly serious, sometimes at the same time. The proposal scenes are hysterical while the action scenes involving the Goth cult are frightening even as they seem otherworldly. BELL, COOK AND CANDLE is a humorous novel that has cross-genre appeal. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: humorous novel that has cross-genre appeal
Review: After numerous false starts, plenty of failures, and several times quitting out of boredom, Angle Arnolf has finally found a business that she performs well and that people appreciate. "Commercial Cakes" is doing so well that Angie barely has time to sleep. This frustrates her boyfriend homicide detective Paavo Smith, who after much deliberating, has finally worked up the courage to ask her to marry him.
Every time Paavo begins to propose, Angie is distracted, called to the phone or falls asleep. She ends up hiring two employees who are into the Goth scene while Paavo happens to work on a serial killer case involving Goths. He doesn't know how, but based on experience with his beloved, Paavo expects Angie is going to become involved in his case though he hates it when she places her life in danger.
Joanne Pence writes an ingenious mystery that is both hilarious and deadly serious, sometimes at the same time. The proposal scenes are hysterical while the action scenes involving the Goth cult are frightening even as they seem otherworldly. BELL, COOK AND CANDLE is a humorous novel that has cross-genre appeal. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Angie and Paavo keep getting better and better!
Review: After the last book in this series, I was ready for Angie and Paavo to start talking marriage. Well, so was Paavo! But Joanne Pence skillfully keeps us in suspense about that as well as about the identity of the ritualistic killer who seems to be targeting Angie for his ultimate victim until the exciting climax. I look forward to the next mystery in this series because with Joanne's talent, she's bound to keep readers in suspense about pulling off a wedding while scaring the daylights out of us with a clever mystery. She has another winner on her hands!
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Summary: Angie and Paavo keep getting better and better!
Review: After the last book in this series, I was ready for Angie and Paavo to start talking marriage. Well, so was Paavo! But Joanne Pence skillfully keeps us in suspense about that as well as about the identity of the ritualistic killer who seems to be targeting Angie for his ultimate victim until the exciting climax. I look forward to the next mystery in this series because with Joanne's talent, she's bound to keep readers in suspense about pulling off a wedding while scaring the daylights out of us with a clever mystery. She has another winner on her hands!
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Summary: Deliciously Dark
Review: Angie Amalfi has finally found her nitch, baking comical (and sometimes tasteless) cakes for the bay area community. For once Angie has found one of her business endeavors to be fruitful and puts all of her time and energy into seeing that this enterprise is more successful than all of her others. Unfortunately that means turning her back on her boyfriend Paavo (who has incidently decided to propose......that is if he can get Angie to pay attention to him long enough) and her closest girlfriend Connie. Since Connie feels unappreciated Angie is forced to turn to hired hands to help her meet the demand for her cakes. After hiring a couple of kids who like to hang out in the local "Goth" scene Angie finds herself over her head in toads, blood, desecrated cakes, and bodies. Will she also find herself as some sicko's dessert????? An entertaining read as always by Pence. At times I found the story to be difficult to follow which is why I don't rate it as high as her last, but it keeps the blood flowing and the pages turning in typical pence style.
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Summary: Deliciously Dark
Review: Angie Amalfi has finally found her nitch, baking comical (and sometimes tasteless) cakes for the bay area community. For once Angie has found one of her business endeavors to be fruitful and puts all of her time and energy into seeing that this enterprise is more successful than all of her others. Unfortunately that means turning her back on her boyfriend Paavo (who has incidently decided to propose......that is if he can get Angie to pay attention to him long enough) and her closest girlfriend Connie. Since Connie feels unappreciated Angie is forced to turn to hired hands to help her meet the demand for her cakes. After hiring a couple of kids who like to hang out in the local "Goth" scene Angie finds herself over her head in toads, blood, desecrated cakes, and bodies. Will she also find herself as some sicko's dessert????? An entertaining read as always by Pence. At times I found the story to be difficult to follow which is why I don't rate it as high as her last, but it keeps the blood flowing and the pages turning in typical pence style.
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Summary: Angie Amalfi meets a vampire
Review: Angie Amalfi's new Comical Cake business is very time consuming, yet successful. It however is putting a definite strain on her friendships and social life. Paavo wants to propose, but she is too busy. And to top it off, a really creepy Baron, who runs a Goth club wants her to bake him a cake. Paavo is engrossed in a series of grisly ritualistic murders. This is a pretty entertaining mystery. Amazon recommended it and I gave it a try. The characters are a bit bizarre and fit in excellently with the story line. There are many twists and turns in the plot and I enjoyed it a great deal.
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Summary: Angie Amalfi meets a vampire
Review: Angie Amalfi's new Comical Cake business is very time consuming, yet successful. It however is putting a definite strain on her friendships and social life. Paavo wants to propose, but she is too busy. And to top it off, a really creepy Baron, who runs a Goth club wants her to bake him a cake. Paavo is engrossed in a series of grisly ritualistic murders. This is a pretty entertaining mystery. Amazon recommended it and I gave it a try. The characters are a bit bizarre and fit in excellently with the story line. There are many twists and turns in the plot and I enjoyed it a great deal.
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