title: Sprinkle with Murder (Cupcake Bakery Mystery)
author:  Jenn McKinlay 
description: Starred Review. McKinlay (who writes decoupage mysteries as Lucy Lawrence) pens a tender cozy full of warm and likable characters and a refreshingly sympathetic murder victim. Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura have just opened their cupcake bakery, Fairy Tale Cupcakes, with financial help from their best friend, Tate Harper. It seems like a dream come true, with the exception of their resentful competition and the excessive demands of Tate's vapid fiance, fashion designer Christie Stevens. When Christie is found dead in her studio holding a sample wedding cupcake, the bakers become suspects. Melanie has faith the police will solve the case, but she's less sure about the motives of Angie's handsome DA brother, Joe, and concern for Tate and Christie's family drives her to launch her own investigation. Readers will look forward to more of McKinlay's tasty concoctions. <i>(Mar.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # Praise for the Cupcake Bakery Mysteries
  
  
  “[McKinlay’s] characters are delicious.”
  
  
  — _New York Times_ bestselling author Sheila Connolly
  
  
  “All the ingredients for a winning read.”
  
  
  —Cleo Coyle, _New York Times_ bestselling author of the Coffeehouse Mysteries
  
  
  “McKinlay bakes a sweet read!”
  
  
  —Krista Davis, _New York Times_ bestselling author of the Domestic Diva
  Mysteries
  
  
  “A tender cozy full of warm and likable characters and a refreshingly
  sympathetic murder victim. . . . Readers will look forward to more of
  McKinlay’s tasty concoctions.”
  
  
  — _Publishers_ _Weekly_ (starred review)
  
  
  “Good plotting and carefully placed clues make this an enjoyable, light
  mystery, made a little sweeter with recipes for the cupcakes Mel’s team
  creates.”
  
  
  —The Mystery Reader
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Titles by Jenn McKinlay
  
  
  Cupcake Bakery Mysteries
  
  
  
  
  
  SPRINKLE WITH MURDER
  
  
  BUTTERCREAM BUMP OFF
  
  
  DEATH BY THE