Death Takes the Cake — Melinda Wells

Meet Della Carmichael, owner of a cooking school in Santa Monica, California, and star of a new cable cooking show. When Della enters a baking competition to promote her show, she soon finds the cakes aren't the only things getting iced...

To help boost ratings for her show, humble host Della reluctantly agrees to enter a televised cake competition sponsored by Reggi-Mixx, even though the company's owner, Regina Davis, is an old college nemesis. When Della hears that competitive pastrymaking is a blood sport, she doesn't take it literally--until she finds someone drowned in a mixing bowl full of cake batter.

It turns out the victim has a list of enemies longer than the ingredients in Regina's inferior cake mix. But when her dear friend's husband becomes the prime suspect, Della is determined to serve a killer some just desserts...