Not bad for a first in a series. The location was charming and I liked the colorful characters and the vintage kitchen is a cute idea. The plot was a little Jessica Fletcher-y. I more or less figured it out early on in the book. There was a little too much internal dialogue going on (the endless mooning over her ex left me flipping through pages an pages) and the foreshadowing could've been more subtle to the same effect.

There was one thing that irritated me: Baking SODA does NOT fizz in water. Ever. Baking POWDER does. If you mix up the two, you will have major baking problems.