A Little Too Fond of Cake and Other Stories

By Cecilia Peartree

This collection includes the title novella, A Little Too Fond of Cake, and a handful of short stories of various lengths and genres. A Little Too Fond of Cake, a dark comedy of novella length (in 13 chapters), tells the separate but somehow inextricably connected stories of Claire and Jennifer, who both happen to be fond of cake, and of Claire’s husband George’s mysterious disappearance.
By the author of the Pitkirtly Mysteries, Adventurous Quests and Max Falconer Mysteries.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cecilia Peartree
• Release date: Dec 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005868215

Cecilia Peartree

Cecilia Peartree is the pen name of a writer from Edinburgh. She has dabbled in various genres so far, including science fiction and humour, but she keeps returning to a series of 'cosy' mysteries set in a small town in Fife.The first full length novel in the series, 'Crime in the Community', and the fifth 'Frozen in Crime are 'perma-free' on all outlets.The Quest series is set in the different Britain of the 1950s. The sixth novel in this series, 'Quest for a Father' was published in March 2017..As befits a cosy mystery writer, Cecilia Peartree lives in the leafy suburbs with her cats.

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