What it’s about (from Goodreads):

It's the dead of winter and struggling actress and wedding cake decorator Piper Donovan is thrilled to be in warm and romantic Sarasota, Florida, enjoying the powdery white beaches, soothing seas, and golden sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico. She and her family are there to celebrate her beloved cousin's wedding. Not only is Piper creating the sugar sand dollar-festooned wedding cake, she's also the maid of honor.

But a cloud seems to hover over the whole affair. Shortly after a bridesmaid mysteriously disappears, a kindly neighbor's car is run off the road and a prospective witness, an innocent Amish teenager, is threatened to keep silent. Then a body is found on the wedding beach. With the nuptials threatened, it falls to Piper to unmask a killer. Could it be the wedding planner with something to hide? A doctor and his wife who collect unusual Japanese figurines? The best man, an ex-drug dealer with lecherous eyes and roving hands? What about her cousin's future stepfather-or even the bridegroom himself?

As Piper gets close to figuring out who's been covering his guilty footprints in the sand, the cunning killer has already set his sights on Piper as his next victim!

Our thoughts:

This was a really cute story of Piper Donovan, a cake decorator attending a wedding in beautiful Sarasota, Florida. And the setting is about all that I liked.

 I couldn't understand why Piper would even be involved in looking for a murderer, being that her background is in cake decorating. Maybe if she was a private investigator it would have been more believable.

I also thought the book was very predictable. There was only part that was the least bit surprising.

With its simple sentences and single page chapters, I felt this book could have been more suitable for younger readers.  Not a total flop but I think I would pass on reading anymore Piper Donovan Mysteries.

We would recommend this to:

People who like fluffy mysteries and quick reads