The Walking Bread

Apprentice baker Ivy Culpepper sees art cars everywhere she turns.
Besides helping prepare the bread and pastry for Santa Sofia’s annual
spring event, she’s the official photographer, documenting the elaborate
cars, outspoken artists, and riotous celebrations. Even her family’s in
on the act: her brother Billy has been runner-up in the competition
more times than she can count—but this is going to be the year he
celebrates his win in the victory lane.
 
But after Billy’s rival,
Max Litman, revs up his bombastic showmanship, Billy is once again set
to cruise into second place. Until Max is found dead—positioned as a
prop in his own art car. The whole town knows there’s no love lost
between the two men, and Billy is the prime suspect. Now Ivy will have
to sift through collusion, deception, gossip, and lies to find out what
really happened. But with the help of her octogenarian Watson, her
restaurateur beau, and her adopted aunts at Yeast of Eden, she knows she
can take the heat . . .