The Empress and the Cake

by Linda Stift
This starts in the most normal way with an old lady offering a young woman a piece of cake at a pastry shop.
It then descends into a sinister creepy tale as the young woman becomes enmeshed in the strange goings on of the older woman.
Both women exhibit traits of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth which is both funny and creepy at different times. The book ends with the darkest of sentences.
There was an awful lot of vomiting in this book which is a bit hard to take, and probably best not read while eating cake! 8/10