Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Devil's Food

Devil's Food by Kerry Greenwood (2006) 238 pages

Corinna Chapman is a former accountant turned baker. Her weekday life revolves around waking up at 4 am to make bread for restaurants and for her shop. She employs Jason, a former drug addict, as her very capable baking assistant, as well as Kylie and Goss, two wanna-be actresses who man the register in the bakery shop. Everything goes south when both Kylie and Goss get quite sick, and then Corinna's flower-child mother shows up, demanding Corinna help her find Corinna's father, who left the commune they lived in. Corinna would love to find her father, if it will mean that her mother will go away!

It's all hands on deck as several of the very eccentric residents of the apartment building, as well as Corinna's lover Daniel, work to help stabilize the girls' health and to figure out where Corinna's father went. They go into some scary neighborhoods and always seem to be a step behind. When some creepy monastic dudes show up at the bakery, demanding Corinna make an unpalatable bread, using their own recipe, that just adds to the weirdness.


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