Jules, owner of Torte, a bakeshop in Ashland, Oregon, has a strong sense of community and treats her employees like family. The new twists on the original zesty orange Jaffa Cakes have been created in Cherry or Passion Fruit flavours, sandwiched between the iconic dark chocolate and sponge layers. While on the cruise a murder occurs and Jules helps the Professor to solve it. The captain asks the Professor to investigate the crime (there goes the vacation). A Crime of Passion Fruit (A Bakeshop Mystery Book 6) and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. When her estranged husband, Carlos (and yes, I am #teamcarlos! Jules, owner of Torte, a bakeshop in Ashland, Oregon, has a strong sense of community and treats her employees like family. As if her turbulent emotions regarding Carlos and his attempts to win her back are not enough, she finds the dead body of a woman who had been acting very suspicious. I enjoyed the book, I have enjoyed all of then, looking forward to the next. As if her turbulent emotions regarding Carlos and his attempts to win her back are not enough, she finds the dead body of a woman who had been acting very suspicious. Jules Capshaw receives a call from her estranged husband, Carlos asking for her assistance. Cancel anytime. To be honest, now that I've ploughed my way through all the previous books in this series, I'm finding them pretty boring and wishy washy. As well, keep the surrounding area free of weeds and competing plants, including grass. ―Fresh Fiction"This debut culinary mystery is a light soufflé of a book (with recipes) that makes a perfect mix for fans of Jenna McKinley, Leslie Budewitz, or Jessica Beck." Her estranged husband, Carlos, is thrilled to have her on board again, and Juliet's mom and her boyfriend come along for a week-long vacation too. The pastry chef on the cruise ship quit unexpectedly and his replacement will not arrive for a week. I seem to gravitate to cozy mysteries. Meanwhile, Jules's estranged husband Carlos is making a desperate plea for her to come aboard his cruise ship and dazzle everyone with her signature sweets. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A Crime of Passion Fruit: A Bakeshop Mystery (A Bakeshop Mystery (6)) Mass Market Paperback – June 27, 2017 by Ellie Alexander (Author) › Visit Amazon's Ellie Alexander Page. Passion fruit nectar. Sweet passion variety is one of the best tasting passion fruit in the world. Lance, Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is at loose ends and states he will “supervise” the staff while they are away (oh, dear). Well written characters, a touch of romance, and a mystery that will keep you guessing make this a hard to put down book. The series showcases plenty of amazing recipes. Books › Mystery, Thriller & Suspense › Mystery Share CDN$ 7.47. Basically she lived for a decade or so on a cruise ship as a pastry chef and married Carlos (who is a Mexican cliche and begins every sentence with Si or adds it to every sentence...) the main food chef. Okay so I didn't start off with the first book in the series so I was playing a bit of catch up with some of the back story on the MC which we get snippets of. Of course on the second day of the cruise, Jules finds a dead body floating in the pool early in the morning. Three and a half stars: An entertaining cozy mystery, but I missed the coziness of the bake shop, and the murder mystery was a little too unrealistic. Download one of the Free Kindle apps to start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, and computer. Her estranged husband, Carlos, is thrilled to have her on board again, and Juliet's mom and her boyfriend come along for a week-long vacation too. Ellie Alexander provides a detailed explanation of the life of the employees on a cruise ship. Ellie Alexander (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. The pastry chef on the cruise ship quit unexpectedly and his replacement will not arrive for a week. In this outing with Jules, Torte moves into the background. He makes her an offer she can't refuse when he also invites her over worked mother and her fiance the Professor. You can hear the waves hit the side of the shop? The captain would like Jules to return and offers an incentive of an all-expense paid trip for her mother, Helen and her fiancé, Doug Curtis (the Professor). The set up in the first few chapters really gives you a handle on who is who and what is going on in the universe in and around Ashland. A Crime of Passion Fruit by Ellie Alexander is the sixth book in A Bakeshop Mystery series. Other Passion Fruit breeds not classified as yellow or purple passion Sweet passion fruit. 1-Click ordering is not available for this item. Jules treats everyone like they are family. About almost half of this book is taken up by our MC's inner musings about her life at home, and her love of Carlos and should she remain at sea. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read A Crime of Passion Fruit. Jules has her hands full with baking scrumptious treats for the passengers, searching for clues, Carlos and a rocky ship from a squall they are passing through. A Crime of Passion Fruit (Book) : Alexander, Ellie : "Jules Capshaw is trying to keep her cool as Torte gets set to make its transformation from quaint, local confectionary café to royal pastry palace. I am astounded by the 4 average rating for this novel - but well, to each their own. Unable to add item to Wish List. Till Death Do Us Tart: A Bakeshop Mystery, A Batter of Life and Death: A Bakeshop Mystery, Crimes Of The Tart (A Bluebell Cafe Cozy Mystery Book 3), A Friend In Knead (A Bluebell Cafe Cozy Mystery Book 1), The Director's Cut: A Patricia Fisher Mystery, A Tough Nut to Crack (A Spicetown Mystery Book 5), Welcome to Spicetown (A Spicetown Mystery Book 1), The Kidnapped Bride: A Patricia Fisher Mystery, Something Borrowed, Someone Blue (A Bluebell Cafe Cozy Mystery Book 2). You can feel the warmth of the sun kiss your cheeks? 3.5 stars. Another nice cozy mystery in the Bakeshop series. ), asks her to return to his cruise ship for a short time to work as a pastry chef, she agrees. Our NEW Crime of Passion Fruit bath bomb is scented in a sweet and fruity passion fruit fragrance that has undertones of kiwi fruit! The passion fruit got its name because priests in the 1500s thought parts of the passion flower symbolized the "passion," or suffering and death, of Jesus. Water turns a bright orange colour. I was transported to a tropical paradise from the moment I saw the cover until the very last page. Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2020, Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2017. In order to navigate out of this carousel, please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. The author provides recipes at the end of the book to recreate at home--I definitely want to try the tropical iced-chai. 3.5 stars. She can not turn this opportunity down. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. She received a call from Carlos (her estranged husband) that the pastry chef on the upcoming cruise has quit and they need someone for a short four day cruise until the new hire can arrive. It’s more hardy and vigorous as compared to the purple passion. and of course her husband is trying to persuade her to come back to him and the cruise life. I'm pretty burnt out on it now, and the only cozies sneaking their way onto my reading list are the ones from series that I really love, and the Bakeshop Mysteries are at the very top of the list. Find all the books, read about the author and more. Also she talks about how much work being head pastry chef is and how many hours she has to spend in the kitchen....and yet she is hardly there at all. it's an all expense paid trip with a few catches: she agrees to fill in for the head pastry chef during the time and it is the cruise ship her estranged husband is head chef on. It only been a few months (and several murders later) that Carlos asks her to come back to the ship to help out for a week or so. Will definitely be reading other books from this series. Just failed to feel the passion of plot and characters. Not only does her mother really need a vacation, but it will give her time to decided what to do about Carlos. She is troubled by the fact that no one knows who the deceased is, and as she investigates, finds more and more things that are not what they should be. Famous last words. A Crime of Passion Fruit ISBN13 9781250088079 Edition Format Mass Market Paperback Number of Pages 266 pages Book Language English Ebook Format PDF, EPUB. With Daniel Moynihan, Anthony Newlands, John Phillips, Peter Evans. The characters are some of my favourites and I strongly suggest you read this series in order. ), asks her to return to his cruise ship for a short time to work as a pastry chef, she agrees. Non-existent plot, indirect speech, passive voice, repeating the same thing ten times. Released June 27, 2017. . I was sad to see this one end, but am delighted to know that there’s another one coming out way. British courtroom drama set in France, concerning the trials of murderers who commit crimes of passion. So much for a relaxing time and seeing if she can still make a go of it with Carlos! Jules Capshaw is trying to keep her cool as Torte gets set to make its transformation from quaint, local confectionary cafe to royal pastry palace. A Crime of Passion Fruit: A Bakeshop Mystery Kindle Edition by Ellie Alexander (Author) › Visit Amazon's Ellie Alexander page. The art of creating a 277 page book out of nothing !!! When she found out he had a son (it sounds like he has nothing to do with the kid or possibly didn't know himself) she freaks out and jumps ship to go back home. Learn more. Another fun installment in this cozy mystery series! Meanwhile, Jules's estranged husband Carlos is making a desperate plea for her to come aboard his cruise ship and dazzle everyone with her signature sweets. Party-Refuseniks Fergy and Paulie find Machi Moojoo(moose), a kindred soul. Her estranged husband Carlos has an opening for a pastry chef on the cruise ship he is the head chef on and invited Jules to fill in. “A warm and inviting atmosphere, friendly and likable main characters, and a nasty murder mystery to solve!” ―Fresh Fiction Now, instead of enjoying tropical drinks on deck between whipping up batches of sea-salted chocolates and flambéing fresh pineapple slices in the kitchen, Jules is plunged into dangerous waters. There is a lot going on in this novel. Juliet Capshaw gets a phone call from her sort of estranged husband Carlos, the head pastry chef on the cruise ship has been sacked and they need another for a week, to sweeten the deal Carlos has arranged for Juliet's mother and The Professor (aka the chief detective of the local police) to also have a trip. Found this to be a stand alone read with no loss of continuity not having read the previous five. The story does not display a graphic murder scene. Meanwhile, Jules's estranged husband Carlos is making a desperate plea for her to come aboard his cruise ship and dazzle everyone with her signature sweets. I have to admit that I am tired of mysteries set on cruise ships but this series is a winner and I enjoyed this latest offering. And yet - whenever they meet, they don't discuss their marriage, separation or feelings, they act like casual acquaintances. A Crime of Passion Fruit fits that bill. The delicious recipes included at the end are an added bonus! Things get even more complicated when the ship heads into a storm, and there is even more danger. First Jules needs to deal with her relationship with Carlos, she is helping the professor figure out who the dead woman is as well as who killed her, and they are sailing into an impending storm/hurricane which is dangerous for the small ship. Jules Capshaw receives a call from her estranged husband, Carlos asking for her assistance. Also very surprised at the end! Ellie Alexander continues her Bakeshop Mystery series with A Crime of Passion Fruit. I highly recommend MEET YOUR BAKER and look forward to reading the next book in this new series!" A Crime of Passion Fruit. ―RT Book Reviews (4 stars) on Meet Your Baker. Jules feels like she’s ready to jump ship. Not Rated | 1h 26min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 8 November 1957 (Finland) Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. The mystery is well crafted and the plot had a steady pace. The same blonde woman she noticed sneaking around the crew area of the ship. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path. A Crime of Passion Fruit (Book) : Alexander, Ellie : "Jules Capshaw is trying to keep her cool as Torte gets set to make its transformation from quaint, local confectionary café to royal pastry palace. Another fun installment in this cozy mystery series! Jules Capshaw receives a call from her estranged husband, Carlos asking for her assistance. As a push to get Jules to agree, Juliet’s mother and her mother’s boyfriend, the Professor, will be given a free crui. The fruit is bigger with a diameter of 5-7 cm, relatively acidic and used for juice extraction. Okay so I didn't start off with the first book in the series so I was playing a bit of catch up with some of the back story on the MC which we get snippets of. This one took place mostly on a cruise ship, which I found fascinating. Another delightful cozy from my favorite foodie series! Jules Capshaw is trying to keep her cool as Torte gets set to make its transformation from quaint, local confectionary café to royal pastry palace. Even though it was not the first book of the series it was still easy to follow the characters personalities. Carlos provides Jules' mom and her detective boyfriend, "the Professor," with free tickets aboard the ship. It has a tough outer rind and juicy, seed-filled center. June 27th 2017 In her past life, Jules worked on various cruise ships as a pastry chef. She can not turn this opportunity down. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. I was transported to a tropical paradise from the moment I saw the cover until the very last page. A Crime of Passion Fruit by Ellie Alexander, Jun 27, 2017, St. Martin's Paperbacks, ST MARTINS edition, mass market paperback In this 6th installment in the Bakeshop series, Carlos persuades Jules to rejoin his staff on the cruise ship when his pastry chef quits unexpectedly. I seem to gravitate to cozy mysteries. Here's the thing; the main character has separated from her husband, Carlos, and can't seem to decide whether to divorce him or go back to him. This author and series is just THAT good to divert my attention away from any negativity. . This theme is carried throughout the series and extends to her temporary stay on board a cruise ship. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Passion fruit is the fruit of the Passiflora vine, a type of passion flower. “A perfect mix for fans of Jenn McKinlay, Leslie Budewitz, or Jessica Beck.” ―Library Journal. Ellie Alexander is one of my absolute favorite mystery authors. She is troubled by the fact that no one knows who the deceased is, and as she investigates, finds more and more things that are not what they should be. We've got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the day. There’s a lot going on in this book and the action is never ending. Learn more about the program. Christmas Cupcakes and a Caper: A Humorous Culinary Cozy Mystery Short Read (Death ... Patricia Fisher Cruise Mysteries: Books 1 -4: A humorous Cozy Mystery box set colle... ELLIE ALEXANDER is a Pacific Northwest native who spends ample time testing pastry recipes in her home kitchen or at one of the many famed coffeehouses nearby. This one is so fun to read with the right amount of mystery!!! Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfilment centres, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. I love these cute mysteries! This i s my first foray into the Bakeshop Mystery series. The story does not display a graphic murder scene. It was a treat to go back to Jules’ pastry roots on the cruise ship, her friends and life on a ship was delightful to see. Not only does her mother really need a vacation, but it will give her time to decided what to do about Carlos. I'm pretty burnt out on it now, and the only cozies sneaking their way onto my reading list are the ones from series that I really love, and the Bakeshop Mysteries are at the very top of the list. His 'crime'? Of course, Jules gets herself involved in a murder and gets to help (this time by request) the Professor investigate and solve the case. 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