Think 'The Great British Bake Off' but add murder and sabotage.

Grafton Manor in Vermont, the location of the renowned television baking competition, Bake Week.
Maxwell pulls us into Grafton Manor and the lives of the host, Betsy Martin, and the six contestants as they compete to win the golden spoon. This season is different though, Bake Week has a new co-host, someone seems to be sabotaging the bake, people are hiding secrets, and a dead body turns up.

I enjoyed Jessa Maxwell's debut novel. She did a phenomenal job of getting us to care about the characters right from the start. The build-up was a little slow, but Maxwell sprinkled revealed secrets throughout the characters' storylines that built up to the ultimate secret being revealed a murder, and the answers to who sabotaged the bakers and why. I wished that there was a bit more tension between the characters and that we could have gotten a POV on Melanie, just to add a little something extra.

I am a huge fan of 'The Great British Bake Off' and it was so easy to imagine the scene of the contestants baking in the tent and how 'Bake Week' as a whole operated. I am also a fan of locked-door mysteries. If you are too, I highly recommend this book!