Murder À La Mode: a French Countryside Village Culinary Mystery in Provence Maggie Newberry Mystery Series Book

With the wine harvest behind them, things had just started to calm down for Maggie and Laurent in their French village of Saint-Buvard when a team of celebrity judges arrives to put on a contest to decide in a blind taste test which country makes the best pastries—the Brits, the Americans, the Germans or the French.

When one of the contestants ends up stabbed to death, the suspect is a friend. Maggie will need to find a way past the woman’s obvious motive and the damning circumstantial evidence to free her—without putting herself or Laurent in the hot seat in the process.

(Bonus: Laurent’s classic chocolate soufflé recipe is at the end of the book.)
This book is a clean read: no graphic violence, sex or strong language
Genre: culinary cozy mystery, women amateur sleuth, cozy animal (dog)