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  • Cake and Punishment

  • Southern Cake Baker Mystery, Book 1
  • By: Maymee Bell
  • Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
  • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (109 ratings)

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Cake and Punishment

By: Maymee Bell
Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
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Publisher's summary

In the first of a delectable new southern-set baking cozy series, Sophia Cummings, pastry chef extraordinaire, must craft the perfect cake for an old friend's wedding while sifting through the suspects in a murder.

Bucolic Rumford, Kentucky, has glowing fields of bluegrass, a fine selection of bourbons, and now a professional pastry chef. Broken-hearted Sophia Cummings has come home from New York City. She's not there a minute before she's charmed into making her high school friend Charlotte's wedding cake. The kitchen at the Rumford Country Club seems perfect until Chef Emile's body is discovered, sprawled near the stove, a cast iron skillet on the floor close by.

With one look at the shiny, new frying pan, Sophia knows it's not Emile's. She offers her knowledge to Sheriff Carter and her talents to Evelyn, the manager, who needs an interim chef. The mood in the country club is grim: Emile's peppery personality had burned members and staff alike. Sophia wonders which one of them burned him?

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Fun yet deadly story.

Southern humor and relatable characters make this cozy mystery an enjoyable easy listen. Loaded with twists and turns and a good storyline I was completely captivated.

I throughly enjoyed this book and recommend it to others.

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One Problem with Narration

For the most part I am enjoying this story, and the narrator has a sweet and likable voice and a pleasant accent. However, the narrator's cadence is confusing to me and it just doesn't fit the words as they are written. She stresses words at random in a sing-song way, and, as a listener, I have to concentrate harder than I should need to just to figure out what the correct cadence should have been.

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Loved the storyline!

Love this narrator and the creation of recurring characters. Can’t wait to read more in this series. Great character development.

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Narrator made it!

It was good but the narrator made it so much better, so I had to listen to both.

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Southern charm

this is a sweet romance with a mystery thrown in. you will fall in love with the characters and cute community very quickly!

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Great story

I really like the story and the narrator was very good. I’m looking forward to more stories from this author.

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Great book. Great Read.

Great book!!! Such a fun read. I hate that there are only two available. Loved it.

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Really good audiobook

Loved this audiobook. Really entertaining story and amazing narrator. I easily get distracted when listening to audibooks but this kept me hooked!

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Cute small town mystery

This was a good book. The narrator is great! Story is pretty formalistic but a decent listen.

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GREAT NEW SERIES

I SELDOM READ THE FIRST BOOK IN A SERIES THAT IS SO COMPELLING. I FIND MYSELF GETTING A LITTLE IMPATIENT WITH SETTING AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIRST IN A SERIES. NOT SO WITH THIS BOOK. IT IS. "JUST RIGHT," TO QUOTE GOLDILOCKS. THE CHARACTERS ARE GREAT. THE STORYLINE IS GREAT, AND THE NARRATOR DID A WONDERFUL JOB. I AM ABOUT TO START BOOK 2 AND HOPE BOOK 3 IS NOT FAR BEHIND.

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