{"id":2921,"date":"2023-06-01T17:16:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T17:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2023-06-15T15:37:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T15:37:38","slug":"baking-spirits-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2921","title":{"rendered":"Baking Spirits Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I would happily move to Larch Haven, Vermont\u2014and after 20 pages in this book, you would too. Except, perhaps, for the slight issue with murder. Former actress Becca Ransom has taken up a new career as a chocolatier and moved back to hometown Larch Haven. <strong>All is going super\u2014relatives are actually helpful, she has a best friend she can rely on\u2014until she is cajoled into entering the Baking Spirits Bright holiday baking competition.<\/strong> Turns out this annual event isn\u2019t just popular, it\u2019s a beacon for the seriously anxious and unpleasant\u2026one of whom ends up murdered, killed with Becca\u2019s own chocolate chipper (ouch! It\u2019s a six-pronged device used to break up chocolate or ice. Look it up.) We know the drill: Becca needs to solve the mystery to clear her record. But with a cute cop in her court, I wasn\u2019t too worried. A fun, classic holiday cozy that features a great cast of characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I would happily move to Larch Haven, Vermont\u2014and after 20 pages in this book, you would too. Except, perhaps, for the slight issue with murder. Former actress Becca Ransom&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[61,76,77,85,55,56],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-cozy","tag-culinary","tag-holidays","tag-mystery-detective","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Baking-Spirits-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Baking-Spirits-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}