Bite Club
Book 1 of Vampire Bakery Cozy Mystery
by: Corrine Winters
Tessa Lively, a vampire in recovery, is learning how to feed on energy instead of the blood of screaming innocents.
And what better place to settle down than her old hometown? There’s even the bakery she and her husband founded two hundred years before, available for the taking. All she needs is a fake ID and a dream.
Of course, the witch whose identity she stole isn’t quite as disappeared as Tessa had thought. And she’s brought along a pesky PI who seems to know more about magic than he should.
The icing on the cake? Rebecca, the witch who previously owned the bakery, had more than a few dark secrets—and left behind a very high-maintenance familiar, Creampuff, who insists that Tessa drop her hot cross buns and get to solving Rebecca’s murder.
At first, Tessa thinks that a seventy-eight-year-old dark witch dying of a heart attack sounds rather mundane. But when someone else drops dead in her shop, she’ll have to race to find the killer before she and her unlikely friends are next.
Can Tessa solve the case? Or will her deepest secret be revealed, sending her on the run again—or worse?
Bite Club is a cute little story about the friendship between a vampire, a talking cat, and a baker. And murder. Did I mention it’s also a story about murder? Like three of them. Don’t worry, it’s nothing too gruesome. But our main characters, Tessa (the vamp), Creampuff (the bougie cat), and Bridget (the granddaughter of the former witch-owner of the bakery) must solve the mystery of who the killer is or killers are and their motives before it sabotages the success of their cute little bakery, the Dark Bun. Nothing like a quaint story about monsters, magic, and mayhem. This is my first foray into the realm of “cozy mystery.” I found the lack of intensity and suspense to be refreshingly lighthearted. There was more wholesome warmth to the story than tension or mystery. I really enjoyed watching the two women (and one cat) navigate their differences, confront challenges, and keep their spirits high.
thebookcountess.wordpress.com 