Footprints in the Sand - (Piper Donovan/Wedding Cake Mysteries) by Mary Jane Clark (Paperback)

About the Book

Plans for a romantic beach wedding are threatened when a bridesmaid goes missing and it falls to Piper Donovan to save the day in the third installment of Clark's enthralling Wedding Cake Mystery series.

From the Back Cover

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 be hovering 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 beach where the wedding will take place. With the nuptials in jeopardy, it falls to Piper to unmask a killer.

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!

Review Quotes

"The number of characters with motive for murder keeps you guessing, and the action-packed short chapters keep the story moving. You'll also learn a little about cake decorating, and there's a sweet surprise at the end." - Library Journal on To Have and to Kill
"Piper Donovan, professional cake decorator, actress and amateur sleuth, is back. A multilayered plot filled with murder, a taste of jealousy and a healthy dose of madness and mistaken identity is frosted liberally with a rich confection of humor and romantic suspense." - Romantic Times BOOKclub on To Have and to Kill
"... an engrossing and textured mystery sure to delight Piper's fans." - Booklist
"This is a truly fun read! ... A definite keeper!" - Suspense magazine
"Required reading." - New York Post
"A mystery series that mixes the art of wedding cake design with the thrills of suspense." - Bergen Record (NJ)
"She understands how to hang on to her audience. Her characters are the sorts with whom many readers identify." - USA Today
"Intriguing . . . will interest fans of foodie crime." - Booklist on The Look of Love