Beachfront Bakery: A Murderous Macaron (A Beachfront Bakery Cozy Mystery—Book 2)

Written by Fiona Grace

Narrated by Melissa Durbin

appreciates a very well written mystery, with some twists and an intelligent plot. You will not be disappointed. Excellent way to spend a cold weekend!"
--Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (regarding Murder in the Manor)



BEACHFRONT BAKERY: A MURDEROUS MACARON is book #2 in a charming and hilarious new cozy mystery series by #1 bestselling author Fiona Grace, whose bestselling Murder in the Manor (A Lacey Doyle Cozy Mystery) has nearly 200 five star reviews.



Allison Sweet, 34, a sous chef in Los Angeles, has had it up to here with demeaning customers, her demanding boss, and her failed love life. After a shocking incident, she realizes the time has come to start life fresh and follow her lifelong dream of moving to a small town and opening a bakery of her own.



A rude tourist dies after eating his way up and down the boardwalk, and all eyes fall on Allison, as the police blame her new macarons. The macarons have a secret ingredient that is so delicious it has customers lining up and down the boardwalk—but they are not, she knows, the cause of death.



Allison, forced to clear her name and salvage her customers, has no choice but to retrace the victim’s foodie trek up and down the boardwalk, and to figure out what he ate—or who he insulted—that could have gotten him killed.



With her beloved dog at her side, it is a race against time to crack the mystery and solve the crime before she loses her bakery—and her budding romance—for good.



A hilarious cozy mystery series, packed with twists, turns, romance, travel, food and unexpected adventure, the BEACHFRONT BAKERY series will keep you laughing and turning pages late into the night as you fall in love with an endearing new character who will capture your heart.



Books #3 (A PERILOUS CAKE POP), #4 (A DEADLY DANISH), #5 (A TREACHEROUS TART), and book #6 (A CALAMITOUS COOKIE) are also available!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lukeman Literary Management
• Release date: Mar 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9781094316765

Reviews for Beachfront Bakery

[Shelley Dawn · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Narrator repeated sentences several times, needs editing. It was distracting

[Renee · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Plot was good but I preferred the first reader. Character accents were not as good with this reader.

[Susan Masters · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Everything about this book is dreadful. The plot is implausible and the characters are all irritating and superficial. The narrator can’t do accents or even read convincingly.

[slytherinfrost · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Shes got a cute series that isn't overly pushy in one extreme or another. The mysterious clues are well placed and good for identifying later.

[Terri Smith · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Loved listening to the first book in this series. This one, however, was disappointing. Though a cozy mystery can be expected to be lighthearted and comical, the character personalities and plot were a bit too exaggerated and far out in this one. I found myself rolling my eyes a lot. That said, the narrator was an unfortunately poor fit. She stopped in the middle of sentences and just started over again often, without editing the mistake out (why was there no editing? I kept thinking the narration was skipping!) and she pronounced several words wrong. She read this book with an overly dramatic, stilted style rather than narrating it in a realistic one. I do see that the next in the series has a new narrator, so I will go ahead and give it a listen.