Meet Pippa. She’s feisty, forty-something — and living her best life in the charming little town of Louennec, Brittany.
Not so long ago, she was a corporate career girl. Now she runs her own bakery — and goes home every night to her dishy gendarme boyfriend and a glass of Merlot.
But murder is just around the corner . . .
Pippa is out on her rounds, delivering delicious crusty bread to her most loyal customers. Her first stop is Derek’s remote gîte. Fitness instructor Derek sees carbs as the enemy. But even he can’t resist Pippa’s signature baguettes.
Pippa cycles to Derek’s door . . . only to discover, someone got there first.
Derek is dead! His body lies slumped across the piano, in a mess of blood and — to Pippa’s horror — breadcrumbs.
He’s been bludgeoned over the head with . . . a lethal stick of bread?
Just like that, Pippa finds the finger of suspicion pointing at her.
Can she follow the trail of breadcrumbs to uncover the true killer — before more of her friends and neighbours die?
Anne Penketh is originally from Lancashire, England, and turned to fiction after a career as a foreign correspondent. After writing a series of police procedurals for Joffe books set in Norfolk, where her relatives live, she has now followed her heart to Brittany for some amateur sleuthing. Anne worked in France for many years and divides her time between London and Paris.
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My thoughts: I like this series set in Brittany in a town filled with a mix of locals and British ex-pats, where things can get a bit tense between the two. The Bretons don’t even really like people from other parts of France, so British people “taking over” drives a few of them a bit mad.
These issues flare up in different ways, and now someone is killing people with a baguette filled not with delicious dough but metal pipes! And Pippa, as a baker, is on the suspect list.
So she and her friend and fellow ex-pat Judith, start their own investigation. It’s enough to make Yann, her boyfriend (and police officer) say “Peeper!!” Which is the amusing way her says her name and always makes me giggle.
Taking in the interesting (and stereotypically French) way of conducting affairs while married, rivalries over bread, complicated and messy relationships, and occasionally making me hanker for a proper French baguette (British ones are too big and too doughy), this is a fun, entertaining read and if you solve the crime before either Pippa or the police, get yourself a croissant!
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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Thank you so much for being a part of the tour x
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