Laura Bradford Releases a New Mystery Series

  • By: Jessica Faust | Date: Jun 07 2016

Harlan Coben said about Eclair and Present Danger that it’s “the best pun title in a new book”.

Eclair and Present Danger is the first in the Emergency Dessert Squad series. When Laura first described her idea for this series I almost leaped out of my chair with excitement. I remember it so vividly, we were at Malice Domestic in Bethesda, MD and I she couldn’t get her proposal to me fas enough.

The first book in the delicious new Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery series from national bestselling author Laura Bradford.

With her rent rising faster than her pie crust, bakery owner Winnie Johnson had hoped to be rescued by an inheritance from her wealthy friend and neighbor Gertrude Redenbacher. Instead all she inherits is the widow’s hostile hissing tabby, Lovey, and a vintage ambulance, restored by Gertrude’s late husband. As her dream crumbles, Winnie makes her final delivery—a peach pie to an elderly widower. But she finds Bart Wagner lying on his kitchen floor, smothered by a pillow.

To comfort her frightened and grieving neighbors, Winnie comes to the rescue with her baked goods—and an idea is born: dessert delivery via her ambulance and a new business called the Emergency Dessert Squad. When she’s not speeding to the scenes of dessert emergencies, Winnie is also racing to track down Bart’s killer—before she needs to call a real ambulance for the next victim…