Top: Modcloth
Top: Hell Bunny, Modcloth
When Mel and Angie are invited to sell cupcakes at the Juniper Pass Rodeo, they're nervous and excited and all of the things. Even though -- and surely you'll excuse the pun -- it's far from their first rodeo. By which I mean that they discover yet another dead body. Such is the sweetly sinister setup for Jenn McKinlay's Red Velvet Revenge.
But catching a rodeo clown of a killer isn't the dynamic duo's only challenge. When their freezer goes on the fritz, they're faced with more thawed cupcakes than they can sell, forcing them to pivot to cake pops. Ah yes, cake pops, that cutesy craze of the 2010s (this caper came out in 2012). Needless to say, the cupcake catastrophe means that Mel and Angie's square dance card is full. Particularly Angie's, as she juggles not only perps and pastries but the affections of two not-quite-gun-slinging suitors.
But these two aren't the type to let men or mayhem get in the way. And it's fun to find out just how they make -- no, bake -- their way out of this one.
Speaking of twosomes, I couldn't help but post this pair of retro-licious blouses. I wore the cherry one during a Zoom call, and I've never worn the heart one at all. So I thought I'd show them off here. Because murder mysteries remind me to make the most of the everyday.
Including always eating the cupcake.
