An unusual cozy mystery.

It’s the main character that is a murderer and there is more depth of character. If it weren’t for the cover and the title, I would have dubbed this a thriller, not a cozy.

Daisy Ellery so from a line of women that add magic to their services. Her grandmother was a dressmaker that put love and best wishes in the seams of the dresses she made; her mother put love and courage in the hair she styles. Daisy puts magic in to pies. Studiousness and calm in pies she sells to students, candour if needed. And her pies make men that beat their spouses stop.

But someone’s found out and they want Daisy to make a few pies for them or they will expose her. Daisy would rather not be exposed, but she also doesn’t want to give into the blackmail. She tries to find the women that are the intended recipients of the blackmailer’s pies and through them, her blackmailer.

Meanwhile, Daisy is also making a few friends and there’s a budding romance.

I liked this one.

I read an ARC through NetGalley.