Justice by Pie: The Devious Doings of Daisy

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If you are a big ready of cozy mysteries, this book may completely turn your expectations on their heads. Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies, Misha Popp’s debut book, will shock readers.

What’s so different about protagonist Daisy Ellery? How about the fact that she makes murder pies? She creates deadly pies with a sinister purpose — to do away with men who abuse women. Her Pie Girl brand is a cover for her underground business, Pies Before Guys, her own little Murder, Inc., where she creates and distributes murder pies to take out the abusers.

In this first book in the series, Daisy’s organization has been infiltrated by someone with his own plans of revenge. He wants to send murder pies to three women under threat of revealing Daisy’s dastardly doings. It is up to Daisy to figure out who is blackmailing her and how to ensure the safety of the women.

I am enjoying this book quite a big, but can’t figure out why Daisy keeps locking up her pit bull to keep him away from the action while she goes out to investigate intruders in the dark by herself, armed with only a rolling pin.

“That looks amazing,” he says…