Description
Pastry chef Kati Bodnar comes home to the Hudson Valley to close her late grandmother’s bakehouse and finds the family sourdough starter rises only when the truth is spoken over it, slowly, over hours. When the farmers’ market president is found face-down in her flour bin, the starter can tell her who believes what they say, but it can’t tell her who is lying with the truth.
Genre: Paranormal cozy mystery / culinary, amateur woman sleuth
Tropes: Amateur sleuth, heroine comes home, inherited family gift, small river town where everyone knows everything, holiday market, sleuth is the first suspect, wise older friend, recipes from a family ledger, slow optional romance
Target length: 70,000–75,000 words (about 290–310 pages)
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