--- product_id: 14997769 title: "Devil's Food Cake (Culinary Mysteries)" price: "842 kr" currency: NOK in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.no/products/14997769-devils-food-cake-culinary-mysteries store_origin: NO region: Norway --- # Devil's Food Cake (Culinary Mysteries) **Price:** 842 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Devil's Food Cake (Culinary Mysteries) - **How much does it cost?** 842 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.no](https://www.desertcart.no/products/14997769-devils-food-cake-culinary-mysteries) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description When a literary agent dies at a library fundraiser, Sadie Hoffmiller finds herself on the trail of the murderer. As she digs deeper into the mystery she discovers connections to an unsolved decade-old murder-suicide. Review: Love the recipes too. - This is another great story by Kilpack. She’s a gifted author and the story line has unexpected twists. Not your average mystery, very unpredictable and entertaining. Review: my favorite. In this book - I'm basing my 5-star rating on Josi Kilpack's novel, as measured against her other books I have read. I think this one is, by far, my favorite. In this book, Sadie Hoffmiller, the retired school-teacher widow heroine of Ms Kilpack's books, seems like a more relatable character. She stands up for herself more, gets her feelings hurt (justifiably so) more, and starts thinking that maybe there's more to life than just having one boyfriend to boss her around. The mystery action is very compact--one whirlwind night, which keeps the plot moving very quickly. Despite the compact time element, the story is complex and fun to follow as Sadie and an ever-growing cast of tag-alongs unravel this delightful mystery. I enjoyed the book very much. I'm actually thinking about trying a couple of the recipes in this one, too! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,292,909 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4,016 in Cozy Culinary Mysteries #22,148 in Suspense Thrillers #56,822 in Crime Thrillers (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 Reviews | ## Images ![Devil's Food Cake (Culinary Mysteries) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51BxxeCqXOL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love the recipes too. *by D***. on February 14, 2026* This is another great story by Kilpack. She’s a gifted author and the story line has unexpected twists. Not your average mystery, very unpredictable and entertaining. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ my favorite. In this book *by M***R on March 31, 2015* I'm basing my 5-star rating on Josi Kilpack's novel, as measured against her other books I have read. I think this one is, by far, my favorite. In this book, Sadie Hoffmiller, the retired school-teacher widow heroine of Ms Kilpack's books, seems like a more relatable character. She stands up for herself more, gets her feelings hurt (justifiably so) more, and starts thinking that maybe there's more to life than just having one boyfriend to boss her around. The mystery action is very compact--one whirlwind night, which keeps the plot moving very quickly. Despite the compact time element, the story is complex and fun to follow as Sadie and an ever-growing cast of tag-alongs unravel this delightful mystery. I enjoyed the book very much. I'm actually thinking about trying a couple of the recipes in this one, too! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nobody Else Dies They Just Get Really Big Boo Boos! *by M***N on July 15, 2026* I gave "Lemon Tart" and "English Trifle" four stars. So it is with this book. I'll explain. "Devil's Food Cake" will leave you craving a piece. This is the first time I have been inspired during my reading of this Culinary Mystery Series to attempt making any of the many recipes included in these fun stories for myself. "Killer Nachos" and "Evil Chicken" both sounded so good I decided to give them a try and they both turned out well. I'd never tried toasting chips for nachos in the oven before, then spreading the seasoned meat, toppings and cheese layering it like a casserole before additional baking in the oven and was quite pleased with the result. I recommend it as a good party dish to feed a crowd. Sadie's chicken dish is "Evil" because you don't drain the grease after frying both bacon and the chicken together in the pan. Incredibly fattening, the author warns, but it's also incredibly simple to make since you just add chili powder while browning the meat and add brown sugar last giving it an almost caramel glaze. Ladled over plain white rice, it reminded me of something you might order at Panda Express. Except I used my family's rice pilaf recipe, Sadie, if you'd like to borrow it! So, of course, I had to make the featured book cover dessert as well. My apologies to anyone who does not have a grocery store supermarket chain like WinCo in your state or area because I absolutely love shopping there and take advantage of their fabulous bulk bin items on a weekly basis. The brown sugar for "Evil Chicken" came from their bins because living in Utah and living alone, if you buy a whole bag of brown sugar the remainder will quickly turn into a hard rock if you don't use it all up fast which I never do. That's why I recommend WinCo which also just happened to have tortilla chips at discounted prices which I needed for "Killer Nachos." Long grain white rice can also be purchased from WinCo bins and they have great produce, like tomatoes, for the nachos with better prices than other places. Shameless plug-you're welcome, WinCo! I'd never made a cake completely from scratch like this before, always Betty Crocker mixes and always when they were on sale, so whipping up the featured recipe which includes the homemade "Chocolicious Frosting" and wanting it to look exactly like the cover picture took a good part of the day but it was worth it. The cake turned out to be dense, a bit dry, (I blame Utah climate) but VERY chocolatey. I got a small block of semi-sweet chocolate too (thx WinCo!) for the chocolate shavings sprinkled over the frosting just like the picture. Both cake and the frosting call for a LOT of cocoa powder which you can also get from the bins at WinCo but I just picked up a canister of Hershey's. Ok, let's review the plot and character development of Josi Kilpack's "Devil's Food Cake." We open with Sadie sitting at a table at a fundraising dinner that she helped put together and organize. Most of the dinner was catered but she'd been volunteered to provide her delicious Devil's Food Cake for dessert and got her adopted son, Shawn, to help her finish frosting and preparing the night before because that's a lot of cakes for one event. The featured speaker is an author named Thom Mortenson who used to live in this town before a scandal prompted him to move away and start a new life for himself in California. Sadie didn't know him very well and while her best friend Gayle is recently divorced, single and looking, like Thom, Sadie has her own romantic prospects with Pete Cunningham, the detective she met in the very first book. So far Sadie and Pete have been dating casually but haven't even had their first kiss yet. Pete is late getting to the event but when he arrives he seems genuinely happy to see her. Up on the stage, a man named Mr. Ogreski, Thom's PA manager, is fiddling with the microphone on the podium. Sadie's eyes are closed, savoring the incredible taste of the chocolate cake, HER chocolate cake. Suddenly, a gunshot cleverly rigged inside said podium shatters the quiet murmur of conversation and clinking silverware in the hotel ballroom. Mr. Ogreski is dead and Thom has fled the scene. The intended victim of the sawed-off shotgun inside the podium was obviously Thom the featured speaker...right? Who is behind this? What was the motive? Here's the list of suspects: One of Sadie's table occupants was a young lady named Michele (Wait, that's MY name! But with two lls. I didn't do it, Sadie, I promise!) who just happened to be driving the get-away car for the suspicious-looking young man with a camera who started snapping pictures without anyone's permission before bolting from the scene, much to Sadie's dismay. Could this mysterious photographer, whose name we learn later is Josh, be the murderer? Sadie tracks him down and gets Shawn to help her apprehend and keep him from getting away until Pete and his investigation team can question him. Meanwhile, a reporter for the Denver Post, Jane Seely, just happened to be in town and wants to stick to Sadie like glue so she can be the one to write the Pulitzer prize winning story. Once again, the bulk of this story takes place all in one evening and late into the night. After Sadie manages to ditch Jane, she finally has a chance to change out of her semi-formal evening dress and heels into something more comfortable before she follows a lead to the photographer's mother's home. It is now 10:30pm and Sadie has discovered Josh went to the same high school as Thom's late son who committed a murder-suicide years ago. Josh's mom turns out to be a psycho woman who attacks poor Sadie with a frying pan, insisting her darling boy is innocent and would never be involved in a murder plot, knocking her out. When Sadie comes to, the woman has left, driving away in her car out of the garage but just then, Thom shows up at the door of the home and lets himself in. Thom appears to still be in shock over what happened just a few hours ago. In a bit of "willing suspension of disbelief" when a reader or viewer of media sets aside logic and reality to focus on a work of fiction, Sadie whips up "Killer Nachos" for a bewildered Thom in a kitchen that isn't hers and just happens to have all the ingredients she needs. (You can substitute a microwave for faster prep and Sadie apparently didn't bother with any cooked meat just kept it all vegetarian) Mrs. Hender returns, Sadie bolts out the front door, but "psycho woman" then proceeds to chase her down the icy, snow covered street (because it is still late spring in Colorado) screaming that Sadie is NOT going to send her boy to jail! Desperate, Sadie slams herself into the front door of a neighboring home and falls into the shrubbery. A rather good looking man in his 40s with long hair pulled into a ponytail and wearing a black shirt steps outside. He dismisses the woman, who stomps off in a huff, then when the coast is clear, turns to address Sadie lying on the ground below the concrete front porch. His name is Eric and he'll be a main character in "Key Lime Pie," but he also turns out to be God-send in assisting Sadie in tonight's mystery murder case. Sadie can't help but feel some spark of attraction for him and he seems to feel the same. Pete who? Once again, the many twists and turns made this a fun story to read and it definitely made me hungry! Read it and see if you can guess whodunnit because even I wasn't expecting the character who turned out to be the actual murderer and attacked Sadie in Act III, while monologuing the entire time about how Sadie knows too much for her own good and nearly ruined his/her evil plan with her meddling, to be who I thought. Of course Sadie ends up okay, fighting off her attacker and living to see another day because aside from the one and only victim, to quote a Disney movie that comes to mind...Don't worry. Nobody else dies in these stories. They just get really big boo boos! --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.no/products/14997769-devils-food-cake-culinary-mysteries](https://www.desertcart.no/products/14997769-devils-food-cake-culinary-mysteries) --- *Product available on Desertcart Norway* *Store origin: NO* *Last updated: 2026-10-13*