For Your Pies OnlyA British Senior Sleuth Cozy Mystery with a Retired K9

Betty Fletcher bakes the best pies in the Cotswolds. She has also, at various points in her career, brought down two foreign intelligence networks, survived a double agent, and faked her own death. But none of that prepared her for this.

The Florist is coming for her.

The enemy she ran from. The reason she buried her name, her rank, and her entire life in a Cotswolds bakery. He's here, in Bramblewick, and he's done pretending. To flush Betty out of hiding, he does the one thing guaranteed to make her drop every cover she's ever built.

He takes Major.

The flour comes off. The apron comes off. The smile comes off. And the woman underneath — the one Bramblewick has never seen — walks out the door.

Betty will use every skill she spent five years suppressing to get her dog back and end this, once and for all. She'll call in old debts, break old rules, and remind certain people why Valkyrie was a codename worth fearing. But when the dust settles and the village has seen exactly who their favourite baker really is, will they lock their doors — or will they hand her the keys?

Bramblewick votes. The result is unanimous. Head of Neighbourhood Watch. Effective immediately.

Major votes for the one that involves coming home.

For Your Pies Only is the fifth and final book in The Baker's Spy Mysteries — the series finale where the baker drops the mask, the spy comes home, and the village proves it was never fooled in the first place.

Contains: one extremely angry grandmother, one kidnapped dog (returned safely, we promise), five books of Cold War secrets finally detonating, a village that fights back, and absolutely no on-page violence (but a very satisfying ending).