A Tart Too Late
(2025)(The fourth book in the Blueberry Bay Bakery Mystery series)
A novel by Lucy Lemon
One killer craving. One desperate baker. One final chance to save a life.
When a wanted murderer takes a hostage in Blueberry Bay, he doesn’t demand money—he demands dessert. Each day, he sends Bella Butterfield a message: Bake me something worth dying for… or she dies instead.
As the coastal town locks down in fear, Bella becomes both negotiator and investigator, baking her way through fear and flour in a race against time. Cakes, cookies, and cobblers fail to satisfy the killer’s impossible hunger—and with every failed delivery, his threats grow darker.
But between oven timers and police updates, Bella begins to see a pattern in his requests… and realizes the ‘perfect dessert’ he craves isn’t about sugar at all—it’s about guilt, memory, and revenge.
To stop a murderer and save an innocent life, Bella must serve one final masterpiece—before the clock, and her courage, run out in A Tart Too Late.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
When a wanted murderer takes a hostage in Blueberry Bay, he doesn’t demand money—he demands dessert. Each day, he sends Bella Butterfield a message: Bake me something worth dying for… or she dies instead.
As the coastal town locks down in fear, Bella becomes both negotiator and investigator, baking her way through fear and flour in a race against time. Cakes, cookies, and cobblers fail to satisfy the killer’s impossible hunger—and with every failed delivery, his threats grow darker.
But between oven timers and police updates, Bella begins to see a pattern in his requests… and realizes the ‘perfect dessert’ he craves isn’t about sugar at all—it’s about guilt, memory, and revenge.
To stop a murderer and save an innocent life, Bella must serve one final masterpiece—before the clock, and her courage, run out in A Tart Too Late.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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