Category: Christmas

2020 is going to be the coziest holiday season yet with cozy mysteries from Ava Mallory, Summer Prescott, Jenna St. James, Laina Turner, Gretchen Allen, Joanna Campbell Slan, S. C. Merritt, Minnie Crockwell, Mona Marple, Rachael Stapleton, and Loraine Hudson – along with their favorite holiday cookie recipe!

Gretchen Allen – Lost Claus

Charlotte Moss is one tough cookie, but her new job as Mrs. Claus isn’t what she expected. When Santa goes missing and finds a body, the most wonderful time of the year looks bleak.
Joanna Campbell Slan – How the Cookie Crumbles
Cara Mia Delgatto never met her maternal grandmother. But Nonie Josephina reaches out from the grave with a message for Cara: I left behind a treasure! Can Cara Mia find it before Santa comes to town?

S.C. Merritt – Caramelized Casualty
Kate Kennedy’s stress level is sky-high with the annual holiday unveiling of a giant gingerbread village quickly approaching. When one of the event’s diva celebrity chefs turns up dead, Kate decides she has no choice but to team up with the town’s newest detective if she’s going to pull off the big event. Can she expose the killer in time to save the event?
Minnie Crockwell – Death By Cookie
Widow Sallie Chilcoat decides to get into the holiday spirit by baking up a batch of cookies for her lakeside condominium neighbors, only to have one of them turn up dead – with the remains of her cookies! Did Sallie kill her neighbor with her vegan cookies?

Ava Mallory – Christmas Cookie Catastrophe
When Consuelo “Cookie” Alvarez inherits a bakery from her aunt Birdie, she doesn’t expect to take her late aunt’s place in the Christmas Cookie Bake-Off. Now she has two weeks to perfect the super-secret recipe, but there are major obstacles in her way: she can’t bake, the recipe is missing, and her competitors are a who’s who of shady characters.
Summer Prescott – Hang Out The Stalkings
Someone is stealing Nancy’s cookies…will they steal her holiday spirit too?

Jenna St. James – Christmas Cookie Caper

When Ivy O’Brien learns about her mother’s injury at the annual Couples Christmas Cookie Contest, she runs to the rescue. It looks like she needs to fill in for her mother and hunky policeman Anthony Romano has to help bake the cookie and question the suspects. Between dough-making disasters, nips of peppermint Schnapps, and rolling pin thefts, the pair slowly whittle down their suspect list.
Mona Marple – The Santa Run Is Murderous Fun
Emily Monk’s run out of excuses not to participate in the annual Santa run, but the festivities are threatened when the long-running Santa Run champ is found dead the day before the race.
With a killer to be caught and a Christmas dinner to be bought, Emily needs to think fast if she’s going to solve this case before Santa comes.

Rachael Stapleton – Christmas, Corpses & the Gingerdead Flip-Flop
When house flippers Jack Young, and Juniper Palmer purchase a colorful Queen Anne home, Juniper assumes the exterior gingerbread trim will be the most outlandish thing to see. That is until a prominent wine merchant dressed as Santa is murdered, and Jack’s mother is caught on the naughty list.

Loraine Hudson – Holly, Jolly Misdeeds
First, it’s a thieving Santa. Next, it’s a prowler that threatens Jenny’s peace. It all seems to revolve around a box of cookies.  Why? And what’s next?  
Laina Turner – Cookies and Crime
What is supposed to be a joy-filled awards ceremony for the Romero Boy Scouts turns out to be anything but when Jean Sartor, Scout co-leader, drops dead on stage.
Trixie lands herself on the suspect list since she baked Christmas cookies for the ceremony. She knows she didn’t poison Jean, but who did?

About the Authors:

Jenna St. James writes in the genre of cozy/women’s fiction. Her humorous characters and stories revolve around over-the-top family members, creative murders. Jenna currently lives in Missouri with her fiancé, step-daughter, Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever dog, Brownie, and her tuxedo-cat, Whiskey. She is also a  former court reporter turned educator turned full-time writer.

As a child, Laina Turner thought she would either be a truck driver or work at Taco Bell All. Through her career choices, and she has continued to have a passion for writing stemming from childhood.

Ava Mallory has been writing and dreaming up stories since childhood. Though She grew up two blocks from Chicago’s city, she has lived everywhere from Los Angeles to Oklahoma, Nebraska, and everywhere else in between in her adult life.

Summer Prescott is well-known in the Cozy Mystery realm, having written and published several Best-Sellers in the genre. 

National bestselling and award-winning author Joanna Campbell Slan was born in Jacksonville, Florida, but she grew up in a small town in Indiana. Slan’s work has appeared in five of the New York Times Bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and one of those became a television show. 

Minnie Crockwell is the author of the “Will Travel for Trouble” series of short cozy mysteries. Minnie lives, travels, and writes full time in a Class A recreational vehicle. Although she owns a house in Washington State, she enjoys living in other towns and states, which the RV allows her to do

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