This really should be labelled as a novella. I wish I could give this a higher rating, but it needs a lot more development before that can happen. The whole thing is a little implausible, even outside of the general implausibilities of most small town cozy mysteries. There's also the incredibly linear investigation that ends in a different way than expected, and the extremes the murderer takes with everything. She also clearly doesn't know, and is unwilling to learn, the difference between an interrogation and an arrest. She actively refuses authority more than once because obviously it's better that way. MC Rachael Robinson goes even further by doing things that I likened to just asking for a trip to the police office. She's somehow even worse than most of the cozy mystery heroines who are actively told to stay away, which is the case in most of these novels. The list of suspects is completely linear, and the MC is, decidedly an idiot. As it was, we barely know who the characters are before the mystery is solved. This was the type of story that, if it had been slightly longer and with more character development, it could have worked well. I think A Pie to Die for is only getting this high of a rating from me based on what I have to compare it to. In the vast world of free cozy mysteries, there's a lot of hit or miss. Well, this was an incredibly nothing of a book. 'A Pie To Die For' highlights the devastation that happens when people use the internet the wrong way. The readers of 'A Pie To Die For' will learn about working in a bakery and how competition can affect your business. A Pie to Die for was the first book I have read of Stacey Alabaster, and I will read more books in this series.

However, I found parts plot of A Pie to Die for had some loose ends that did allow the book to flow for me.

At times I had a good laugh with the two bakery detectives and what they get up to throughout 'A Pie to Die For'. 'A Pie To Die For' is a beautiful, cozy mysteries and it is an enjoyable book to read. The readers of 'A Pie To Die For' will continue to follow Rachael and Poppy to see what happens. However, their investigations got them into all sorts of trouble and the path of the local law enforcement officers.

Rachael with her friend Polly may a decision to start up Bakery Detectives. Rachael Robinson was law enforcement number one suspect need to find the real killer to keep her bakery. Rachael Robinson was starting to worry if she will be able to save her bakery business when her worse critic died under suspicious circumstances. 'A Pie To Die For' is book 1 in the Bakery Detectives series by Stacey Alabaster.

A Pie to Die for by Stacey Alabaster