Poisoned Pie Contest
(2026)(The second book in the Gilded Pumpkin Bakehouse Mystery series)
A novel by Diana Beckett
Poisoned Pie Contest
A Gilded Pumpkin Bakehouse Cozy Mystery
Winning the Pie Championship was supposed to save my business.
After surviving one very public murder, I should have known better than to trust a Bramblewick ‘tradition.’ The annual Pie Championship isn’t just a baking contest. It’s a golden ticket. The winner earns a permanent vendor slot on the tourist trail—and in this town, that means survival.
So I enter. I bake like my livelihood depends on it. Because it does.
Then celebrity judge Sterling Hargrove takes one sip of his peppermint palate cleanser, staggers, and collapses in the judges'' lounge.
Now the cameras are rolling, the sponsors are panicking, and somehow my bakehouse is once again at the center of a crime scene. A poisoned syrup bottle. A swapped batch code. A contest that may have been rigged for years.
The more I dig, the clearer it becomes: this wasn’t about pie. It was about power. Someone was buying outcomes, protecting contracts, and using Bramblewick’s sweetest traditions as leverage.
If I don’t expose the truth before the final results are announced, I won’t just lose the competition.
I’ll lose my business. My name. And maybe the only second chance I’ve got.
In Bramblewick Hollow, fairness is just another ingredient''one that can be poisoned.
Genre: Mystery
A Gilded Pumpkin Bakehouse Cozy Mystery
Winning the Pie Championship was supposed to save my business.
After surviving one very public murder, I should have known better than to trust a Bramblewick ‘tradition.’ The annual Pie Championship isn’t just a baking contest. It’s a golden ticket. The winner earns a permanent vendor slot on the tourist trail—and in this town, that means survival.
So I enter. I bake like my livelihood depends on it. Because it does.
Then celebrity judge Sterling Hargrove takes one sip of his peppermint palate cleanser, staggers, and collapses in the judges'' lounge.
Now the cameras are rolling, the sponsors are panicking, and somehow my bakehouse is once again at the center of a crime scene. A poisoned syrup bottle. A swapped batch code. A contest that may have been rigged for years.
The more I dig, the clearer it becomes: this wasn’t about pie. It was about power. Someone was buying outcomes, protecting contracts, and using Bramblewick’s sweetest traditions as leverage.
If I don’t expose the truth before the final results are announced, I won’t just lose the competition.
I’ll lose my business. My name. And maybe the only second chance I’ve got.
In Bramblewick Hollow, fairness is just another ingredient''one that can be poisoned.
Genre: Mystery
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