Sugar and Iced (Cupcake Bakery Mystery)

Sugar and spice and murderous vice.
That€s what pageants are made of€¦

Normally Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura wouldn€t be caught dead at a beauty pageant, but when Mel€s mom asks them to provide cupcakes for the seventy-fifth annual Sweet Tiara contest as a favor for her best friend, they can€t say no. Plus, between cooking up a daily display for the three-day event and sponsoring a cupcake creation challenge for the participants, Fairy Tale Cupcakes will get great publicity.

But the world of pageants is even hotter than Mel€s kitchen. A high-strung judge and a pushy stage mom target Lupe, a young friend of Mel and Angie€s, at the competition and aim to take her out€"by any means necessary. When the same judge shows up dead underneath Mel and Angie€s cupcake display, Lupe is crowned the lead suspect. Now Mel and Angie will have to find the real killer quickly or Lupe may be strutting the catwalk in prison pinstripes€¦