Going, Going, Ganache

Fairy Tale Cupcakes is still recovering from a messy incident at a local magazine photo shoot, where cupcakes ended up flying through the air. To smooth things over, co-owners Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura agree to run a week-long team-building boot camp at their Scottsdale bakery. The plan comes from Ian Hannigan, a billionaire who has just bought Southwest Style, a glossy magazine devoted to the lives of the city's wealthy and well known. His idea is to have his staff spend the week baking cupcakes for charity.

The employees make it plain that they would rather be anywhere else than standing at a counter piping frosting. Then the boot camp takes a far darker turn when the magazine's creative director is found murdered just outside the bakery's door.

With the shop's reputation and future on the line, Mel and Angie set aside their aprons for a very different kind of group project: tracking down the killer before the business goes under. Going, Going, Ganache is part of Jenn McKinlay's Cupcake Bakery Mystery series, a cozy mystery with a sweet-toothed setting, and it includes recipes for readers who want to do some baking of their own.