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Bread Over Troubled Water (A Bread Shop Mystery)

by Winnie Archer

Bread Over Troubled Water (A Bread Shop Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
8th in Series
Setting – California
Kensington Cozies (November 29, 2022)
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages

Rising cozy mystery author Winnie Archer cooks up her latest installment in her delightful and delicious Bread Shop Mystery series.

Photographer Ivy Culpepper is soon to make a home with her husband-to-be in the California beach town of Santa Sofia—but the Yeast of Eden bakery remains her second home. It’s 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 can’t 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 party—with plenty of baked goods on the menu—her rescue pug, Agatha, sniffs out Josh lying in a bed of poppies…scone cold dead.

There’s no reason for Ivy to get involved. She’s busy enough holding down the fort as the shop’s 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 Olaya’s sourdough roll is what killed Josh—and Ivy hears some salacious gossip about her beloved boss. She doesn’t think there’s a grain of truth to the seedy rumors—but to prove it, she’ll have to start sleuthing . . .

Author Guest Post

My first book was released fourteen years ago. I remember getting the call from my agent while I was at work (I was teaching middle school at that time). I immediately called my husband and he surprised me by arranging a little party at a local Mexican restaurant with our friends. It was such a surreal time. I was getting published! My book…my story…was going to be read by strangers!

What is even more surreal is that Bread Over Troubled Water, which just released, is my twenty-ninth book! Twenty-ninth. As in almost thirty. How did that happen?

Honestly, it kind of blows my mind.

I remember the day I first thought to myself, I should turn this story into a book.

It was 2003. My youngest son was about six months old. I would meet up with a friend and fellow word-lover at a coffee shop on Monday evenings, and we would write. We had a prompt book, our notebooks, and a desire to put words on paper. Neither of us had a dream of actually publishing anything. We just loved to write.

Before long, I had a character. She had a family. And a home. And friends. And a job. She had a story. And I thought to myself, I should turn the story into a book.

My next question was: But what kind of book?

The obvious answer was a mystery. I’d grown up reading the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, ad the Hardy Boys. I graduated to Agatha Christie and I am pretty sure I’ve read them all.

Yes, I thought, I will write a mystery.

And so I did. I got an agent (not as easy as it sounds with that four word sentence). The book (series) was acquired (it took more than a year). And the rest, as they say, is history.

And now here you are reading this post because my twenty-ninth book is in the world and I’m celebrating! If you are already a reader of mine, thank you. And if I’m new to you, well, you can jump in and you’ll have many hours of entertainment ahead of you with my backlist.

I couldn’t do what I do without readers like you, so on behalf of myself…and all writers who value their readers so much…thank you!

And happy reading.

About Winnie Archer

Winnie Archer is the nationally bestselling author of the Bread Shop Mystery series, as well as the Lola Cruz Mysteries and the Magical Dressmaking Mystery series written as Melissa Bourbon. A former middle school English teacher, lives in North Carolina with her educator husband, Carlos, and the youngest of their five children. Visit Winnie Archer online at www.MelissaBourbon.com!

Author Links

• • Website: http://www.melissabourbon.com/
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MelissaBourbonWinnieArcherBooks/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bookishly_cozy/

Purchase Links: Kensington – Amazon – B&N – Kobo – IndieBound

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Bread Over Troubled Water TOUR PARTICIPANTS

November 29 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – AUTHOR GUEST POST

November 29 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

November 30 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT WITH EXCERPT

November 30 – Mythical Books – AUTHOR GUEST POST

December 1 – Hearts & Scribbles – SPOTLIGHT

December 1 – Lady Hawkeye – SPOTLIGHT

December 2 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, RECIPE

December 2 – #BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog – SPOTLIGHT

December 3 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT, RECIPE

December 3 – Carla Loves To Read – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST

December 4 – Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

December 5 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT WITH EXCERPT

December 5 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

December 6 – Guatemala Paula Loves to Read – CHARACTER GUEST POST

December 6 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

December 7 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – REVIEW, CHARACTER INTERVIEW

December 8 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT, RECIPE

December 8 – Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT, EXCERPT

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