Time to batten down the hatches. A winter cold spell is about to envelop us. Schools are closing and my swim class is cancelled. (Like I was going out in this cold!)

So, it is a great time for you to pick up a book and harken back to those snow days of your youth. I have a love for snow days. It is a free day you can do whatever. The only rule I like for snow days is that you don’t have to do anything you’re supposed to do. Catch up on reading magzines, watch a show you haven’t had time for yet, or sleep.

At Death’s Dough is the fifth in the Deep Dish Mysteries by Mindy Quigley. I have reviewed the other four books; Six Feet Deep Dish (https://cecooney.com/2022/10/12/six-feet-deep-dish-by-mindy-quigley/), Ashes to Ashes Crust to Crust (https://cecooney.com/2023/06/13/ashes-to-ashes-crust-to-crust-by-mindy-quigley/), Public Anchovy #1 (https://cecooney.com/2023/12/07/public-anchovy-1-by-mindy-quigley/) and Sleep in Heavenly Pizza  (https://cecooney.com/2024/10/22/sleep-in-heavenly-pizza-by-mindy-quigley/). I have enjoyed all of them.

In this fifth book, we find our usually cast of characters, Delilah O’Learry and her Genevea Lake, WI, pizza Parlor. As the book opens, Delilia’s love, Calvin Capone is away but his mother shows up at closing time with Calvin’s cousin. Deliliah had never heard of this cousin and was on alert when Calvin’s Mother asks her not to tell Calvin that the cousin was there. This does not feel right.

You guessed it, she should have told him right away. When Deliliah and her Aunt Biz and friend Sonia go out ice fishing, they find a body frozen in the lake. Days later they discovered that the body was that of Calvin’s cousin. Calvin is none to pleased to find out that his mother and girlfriend were some of the last people to see his cousin alive and they hadn’t told him the cousin was in town. Not only that but the mayor of the town and the Police Chief are fighting and the Chief thinks Calvin is part of the problem. So Calvin is not in charge of the investigation, and the Chief decides that the cousin wasn’t murdered; that it was an accident. When Calvin brings up some points as to why that theory doesn’t work, he and another officer are sent 9 hours away to check on an old cold case. Deliliah is on her own to figure out what is going on.

There is a whole lot going on in this book to throw you off course. Good distractions for the most part. On a weird note, I do think the relationship between Deliliah and Calvin needs to move along a bit.

Anyway, I think that if you liked the other books in the series (which I did) you will enjoy this book. If you haven’t read the other books, I think you can read this without the others.

Thanks for reading!