Devil’s Food Cake Virtual Book Tour March 2010

Join Josi Kilpack, author of the culinary mystery, Devil’s Food Cake (Deseret Book, February ‘10), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in March 2010 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion!

About Josi Kilpack

Josi S. Kilpack grew up hating to read until her mother handed her a copy of The Witch of Blackbird Pond when she was 13. From that day forward, she read everything she could get her hands on and accredits her writing “education” to the many novels she has “studied” since then. She began writing her first novel in 1998, while on bedrest with a pregnancy, and never stopped. Devil’s Food Cake is Josi’s eleventh novel, and the third book in the Sadie Hoffmiller Culinary Mystery Series. The other novels, Lemon Tart (Book 1) and English Trifle (Book 2) were released in 2009. While the books all feature Sadie Hoffmiller as the main character, they stand alone in regard to plot and can be read as a set or as individual titles. Josi currently lives in Utah with her husband, four children, one dog and varying number of chickens.

For more information about Josi, you can visit her website at www.josiskilpack.com or her blog at www.josikilpack.blogspot.com

Devil's Food Cake by Josi S. Kilpack (Click on cover to purchase at Amazon)

About Devil’s Food Cake

It’s been years since author Thom Mortenson has been back to Garrison, Colorado. As part of the library fundraising committee, who invited him to speak, Sadie Hoffmiller wants everything to be perfect—right down to the homemade Devil’s Food Cake she made herself. Murder, however, was not on the menu.

When Thom’s manager ends up dead on stage, Sadie does what any woman with a history of solving murders does–jumps right in to offer her guidance and expertise. The police, however, are not very appreciative. In fact, they’d rather she just go home. But can Sadie help it if she keeps stumbling over information? Can she help it if the people intricately woven into the deception keep crossing her path? The more she learns, the broader the spectrum becomes and when the police refuse to take her seriously, Sadie has no choice but to sidestep them altogether in the pursuit of justice.

With her son Shawn at her side, her reputation on the line, and a full cast of suspicious characters, Sadie Hoffmiller is once again cooking her way through a case that offers far more questions than answers.

Read the excerpt!

“It’s worth the $150.00,” Sadie said, nodding toward Pete’s dinner now that she had him to herself—for the moment anyway. “I promise.” She only wished she could say she’d made it herself. Feeding the people she cared about was one of her favorite things.

Pete smiled and winked at her before using his knife to cut off a piece of prime rib. Sadie looked up at the stage in time to see Gayle roll the podium out from the curtains on the right and Thom walk off stage left, looking frustrated. The manager must be backstage as well. A hotel worker helped Gayle plug a wire from the floor into a port on the side of the wooden podium while Sadie took another bite of cake in hopes of distracting herself from the guilt of making Gayle go up there. She wasn’t even on the library board this year. Sadie was the one who should be helping out.

Suddenly the stage area was cleared except for the manager and the podium. An expectant hush fell over the crowd and the manager looked out at the room of people as if just remembering they were there. After straightening his suit coat he made his way to the podium, which was so tall that the microphone was pointed over his head. He reached both hands up to adjust the snakelike microphone holder so that he could speak into it. However, when his mouth moved, the microphone failed to pick up the sound. Was there a problem with the entire sound system? Sadie wondered. After all their work to pull off this dinner, she would be really, really mad if it all fell apart now.

Mr. Ogreski continued to wrestle with the microphone which seemed to be stuck. It was free from the holder now, but the wire, which should feed through the hole in the podium, didn’t have much give and he couldn’t seem to pull it close enough to his mouth. After a few more seconds, Mr. Ogreski clenched his jaw together, adjusted his grip on the microphone, and yanked the microphone toward him, presumably to free the cord that seemed to be tangled within the wooden podium. It didn’t budge. He took a breath and planted his feet, poised to pull again while Sadie let her eyes drift closed—grateful to give herself up to the chocolate ecstasy in her mouth instead of focusing on what was happening onstage for the moment. There were only a few bites left.

In the next instant, a shot gun blast echoed off the walls of the ballroom and the room seemed to simultaneously duck and scream in horror while Sadie choked on cake.

Josi Kilpack’s DEVIL’S FOOD CAKE VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR ‘10 will officially begin on March 1 and end on March 26.

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