Author: Kat Simons Publisher: T&D Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 33
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Percy James doesn’t normally care which of the winter holidays she gets off. She loves working the front desk at the Azur Regent, a boutique hotel on the Upper East Side of New York City. But this year…this year she needs Christmas. Getting a holiday off in the hospitality business? Notoriously tough. Getting the holiday you want? Almost impossible. At least with Percy’s manager. But this year, Percy has a plan. Win the annual cookie contest, get Christmas off. The only problem… Two of the main players in the competition are missing. Something weird is happening at the Azur Regent. And Percy James has to figure it out. keywords: Amateur Sleuths; Mystery; Contemporary Mystery; Cozy Mystery; Soft-Boiled Mystery; Crime Fiction; Amateur Sleuths Mysteries; New York Hotel Mystery; Mystery Thriller and Suspense; female protagonist; Urban Mystery; mystery and suspense
Author: K.J. Emrick Publisher: South Coast Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 205
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“I can’t get a pulse. Cookie, call for an ambulance.” Definitely not the words you want to hear when a man has just collapsed in the middle of your bakery. A few minutes is all it took for Karen 'Cookie' Williams to be thrust into the center of a nightmare. A customer was dead and she was considered a suspect. Her beloved shop was a crime scene. Things weren't looking so great for her. If you add in the strange figure that was lurking around at night, the prominent businessman who was harassing her to sell up and an unhappy granddaughter who was spending the summer with her you had a recipe for disaster. Can Cookie work out who killed her customer and save her bakery from ruin before she becomes a victim herself?
Author: Laura Joffe Numeroff Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0060245867 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 46
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If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. He'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache, and then he'll ask for a pair of scissors to give himself a trim.... The consequences of giving a cookie to this energetic mouse run the young host ragged, but young readers will come away smiling at the antics that tumble like dominoes through the pages of this delightful picture book.
Author: Catherine Bruns Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 134
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From USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bruns comes the next sinfully sweet Cookies & Chance mystery! With her beloved grandmother on vacation in Italy, baker Sally Muccio has her hands full. Between running a business, running after her toddler daughter, and running to keep her crazy parents out of trouble, Sal can’t seem to catch a break. Adding to her overload, Sal’s ever youthful mother Maria decides to enter the local Mrs. Buffalo beauty pageant, and she elects Sal and Josie to provide sweet treats for the audience. It’s sure to be an exciting day for all involved. But when vengeful contestant Charmaine Weatherwax sabotages Maria’s gown, the beauty contest quickly turns into an ugly affair. Hours later, Charmaine is found dead in her apartment! To make matters worse, Sal’s mom is caught on a surveillance camera entering the woman’s apartment shortly before her death. Are the chaos cookies about to hit the fan for the Muccio clan? Sal will need to find the real killer before her mother’s sent up the river without her stilettos! Recipes Included! What critics are saying: "A fantastic cozy mystery!" ~ InD'Tale Magazine "I want to visit more with all of the quirky characters just to see what crazy and outrageous things they will do next!" ~ Fresh Fiction "The Cookies and Chance Mystery series is more than just a series....it's a family !! Once you read the first book, you are hooked and feel like a member of the crazy Muccio family." ~ Cozy Mystery Book Reviews
Author: Virginia Lowell Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101581336 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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Olivia Greyson is the proud owner of The Gingerbread House--a quaint shop that specializes in all things cookie--and her best friend, Maddie, is her sidekick, baking up scrumptious treats for their parties. But the real-life version of their magnificent gingerbread house is about to crumble to pieces... Tensions are running high as Chatterley Heights' 250th birthday celebration approaches, and Olivia and Maddie are working feverishly to finish a gingerbread house modeled after the famous Chatterley Mansion. When Paine Chatterley, presumed to be dead, shows up to claim his father's house, the town gossips are driven into a tizzy. And when he refuses to allow visitors to tour the mansion during the celebration, all the preparations seem for naught. Then Paine is found lifeless in the bathtub, his wife hysterical and their precious heirlooms destroyed. The hidden lives of the prestigious Chatterley family members begin to surface, and Olivia must unravel their dark past. As it turns out, the town's history isn't all that sweet...
Author: Rainer Böhme Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3662478544 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 572
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2014, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in January 2015. The 23 revised full papers and 10 short papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 102 full papers submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: sidechannels; cryptography in the cloud; payment and fraud detection; authentication and access control; cryptographic primitives; mobile security; privacy and incentives; applications and attacks; authenticated data structures.
Author: Joanne Fluke Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: 1617731242 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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First in the New York Times-bestselling mystery series: “A cleverly plotted cozy full of appealing characters and delicious cookie recipes.”—Publishers Weekly Take one amateur sleuth. Mix in some eccentric Minnesota locals. Add a generous dollop of crackling suspense, and you've got the recipe for this mystery series featuring Hannah Swensen, the red-haired, cookie-baking heroine whose gingersnaps are almost as tart as her comments and whose penchant for solving crime is definitely stirring things up. While dodging her mother’s attempts to marry her off, Hannah runs The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden’s most popular bakery. But after Ron LaSalle, the beloved deliveryman from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery—with Hannah’s famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him—she’s determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, so she sets out to track down a killer. But if she doesn’t watch her back, Hannah’s sweet life may get burned to a crisp. “Culinary cozies don’t get any tastier than this winning series.”—Library Journal
Author: Denise Swanson Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101639873 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 273
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Yard sales can bring out the worst in people. So when Scumble River school psychologist Skye Denison organizes a 100-mile yard sale, otherwise neighborly folk get downright nasty: her own mother creams a woman, and a battle of the sexes breaks out. But when her former boss is found murdered, nobody knows for sure how this cookie will crumble.
Author: Elaine Viets Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101626852 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
Mystery shopper Josie Marcus has been happily married to veterinarian Ted Scottsmeyer for months. But her newly wedded bliss is about to be cut short.... Josie and Ted have finally tied the knot, and they’re ready for the next step: buying a house. Ted’s business partner, Christine, has one she’s willing to sell, but it needs a lot of love. Luckily, the newlyweds are up for the challenge. But when they tear down a rickety gazebo in the backyard, they find the body of Christine’s sister, a free spirit who supposedly took off six months before. The police arrest Christine for murder, leaving Ted to work overtime at the office to cover for his partner. With no time to work on the house or be with her husband, Josie will have to find the real killer quickly, before both her house and marriage are beyond repair.... Includes Shopping Tips!
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