- Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Avon (Dec 17 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0061030848
- ISBN-13: 978-0061030840
- Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 10.7 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #628,541 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
A deranged seer, a family of operatic Italian Americans and a group of Satan worshipers are only a few of the screwball players in Pence's (To Catch a Cook, etc.) over-the-top mystery. While launching her new business, Comical Cakes, culinary adventuress Angie Amalfi stumbles upon an alien world when a prospective client turns out to be the nocturnal proprietor of an after-hours goth club. Though perturbed by her meeting, Angie thinks little of it even after her long-suffering boyfriend, homicide detective Paavo Smith, informs her that a young woman was found raped and murdered in a ritualistic manner. A short while later, another body turns up, setting San Franciscans on edge. Although hard-charging Angie is eager to help with the case, she's so preoccupied with her expanding business that she doesn't even pick up on Paavo's not-so-subtle attempts to propose. Meanwhile, the body count rises, and the police, in their effort to wrap the case up in record time, nab the wrong man. Despite the novel's chaotic organization and self-centered heroine, who's fond of telling everyone else what to do even though she never listens to advice herself, this light confection is sweetened by a colorful assortment of local characters and a sunny location.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Review
“High energy and fun...Joanne Pence has an amazing knack for building fascinating characters and compelling plotlines.” (Romantic Times BOOKclub )
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Angie and Paavo keep getting better and better!,
By Book CraZ "BookcraZ" (Florida USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bell Cook And Candle: An Angie Amalfi Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
After the last book in this series, I was ready for Angie and Paavo to start talking marriage. Well, so was Paavo! But Joanne Pence skillfully keeps us in suspense about that as well as about the identity of the ritualistic killer who seems to be targeting Angie for his ultimate victim until the exciting climax. I look forward to the next mystery in this series because with Joanne's talent, she's bound to keep readers in suspense about pulling off a wedding while scaring the daylights out of us with a clever mystery. She has another winner on her hands!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Angie Amalfi meets a vampire,
By Moe811 (New York USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bell Cook And Candle: An Angie Amalfi Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
Angie Amalfi's new Comical Cake business is very time consuming, yet successful. It however is putting a definite strain on her friendships and social life. Paavo wants to propose, but she is too busy. And to top it off, a really creepy Baron, who runs a Goth club wants her to bake him a cake. Paavo is engrossed in a series of grisly ritualistic murders. This is a pretty entertaining mystery. Amazon recommended it and I gave it a try. The characters are a bit bizarre and fit in excellently with the story line. There are many twists and turns in the plot and I enjoyed it a great deal.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Deliciously Dark,
By Shell "bigvolchef" (FL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bell Cook And Candle: An Angie Amalfi Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
Angie Amalfi has finally found her nitch, baking comical (and sometimes tasteless) cakes for the bay area community. For once Angie has found one of her business endeavors to be fruitful and puts all of her time and energy into seeing that this enterprise is more successful than all of her others. Unfortunately that means turning her back on her boyfriend Paavo (who has incidently decided to propose......that is if he can get Angie to pay attention to him long enough) and her closest girlfriend Connie. Since Connie feels unappreciated Angie is forced to turn to hired hands to help her meet the demand for her cakes. After hiring a couple of kids who like to hang out in the local "Goth" scene Angie finds herself over her head in toads, blood, desecrated cakes, and bodies. Will she also find herself as some sicko's dessert?????An entertaining read as always by Pence. At times I found the story to be difficult to follow which is why I don't rate it as high as her last, but it keeps the blood flowing and the pages turning in typical pence style.
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