Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Finished Reading - A Cookie Before Dying


Description (from back cover):
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 cookie-themed parties. But there's no sugarcoating a fellow shop owner's terrible temper...

One morning Livie's lawn is covered with what looks like a generous sprinkling of confectioner's sugar, but in fact are balled-up flyers reading SUGAR KILLS. She assumes they were distributed by Charlene Critch, the uptight owner of The Vegetable Plate. When Livie heads to Charlene's store, she finds the place trashed and catches sight of a man running out the back door.

Charlene refuses to believe Livie's story about hte intruder, and the feud between the two escalates when Maddie celebrates the harvest with cookies shaped like fruits and vegetables, setting Charlene off again. Could Charlene be hiding a secret serious enough to kill for? Responding to a dog howling on a stormy night, Livie and her Yorker, Spunky, discover the body of a man who was stabbed to death-and looks suspiciously like the one who fled Charlene's store. Perhaps sugar is not all that kills...


Book Stats

Title: A Cookie Before Dying
series: A Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery
Author: Virginia Lowell
publisher: Berkley Prime Crime Mystery (Penguin)
ISBN: 978-0425245019
date published: December 2011
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: cozy mystery
pages: 304

Grade: C
Ages: publisher says 18+, I say 16 +/-

My Stats

Date Finished: Jan 30
fiction or non-fiction
new or re-read
own or borrowed or review
from the shelf or new purchase
print or electronic
if new...purchased at - Target
challenge & just because (just because I loved the first in the series, waited to read because it would fit several challenges for 2012)


Reviewed at...

Book Dragon's Lair
amazon
Powell's
Fictionwise/eReader
Book Depository
Barnes & Noble
publisher
GoodReads
LibraryThing
Shelfari


Challenges

150+
One Million Pages Read
Cruisin' thru the Cozies
50 States/Where are you reading
Mystery/Suspense
12 in 12
The Eclectic Reader
Around the Stacks
Foodies



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