Great Escapes Book Tours Book Review: As The Christmas Cookie Crumbles

As the Christmas Cookie Crumbles (A Food Lovers' Village Mystery) by Leslie Budewitz

About the Book

As the Christmas Cookie Crumbles (A Food Lovers' Village Mystery) 

Cozy Mystery 5th in Series 

Midnight Ink (June 8, 2018) 

Paperback: 288 pages 

ISBN-13: 978-0738752419 

Digital ASIN: B075W25FNF 

Erin is one smart cookie, but can she keep the holiday spirit—and herself—alive till Christmas?

In Jewel Bay, all is merry and bright. At Murphy's Mercantile, AKA the Merc, manager Erin Murphy is ringing in the holiday season with food, drink, and a new friend: Merrily Thornton. A local girl gone wrong, Merrily has turned her life around. But her parents have publicly shunned her, and they nurse a bitterness that chills Erin.

When Merrily goes missing and her boss discovers he's been robbed, fingers point to Merrily—until she's found dead, a string of lights around her neck. The clues and danger snowball from there. Can Erin nab the killer—and keep herself in one piece—in time for a special Christmas Eve?

Includes delicious recipes!

Review: As The Christmas Cookie Crumbles is the 5th book in the Food Lover's Village Mystery series. It is my introduction to the series. What a great book for me to start with as I am a huge sucker for holiday books and an even bigger sucker for Christmas books.  Granted I read this in June, but who cares, because I love Christmas.

This story involves a local girl gone bad who put her life back together and then funds are found embezzled and Merrily is found dead, Erin knows she has to find out who killed her new friend.

The plot is clever and I found I really loved all the characters in this series.

I look forward to continuing the series and reading previous books.

Rating: 5 flowers

About the Author

Leslie Budewitz is the author of the Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries and the Spice Shop Mysteries—and the first author to win Agatha Awards for both fiction and nonfiction. She lives in northwest Montana with her husband, a musician, and doctor of natural medicine, and their cat Ruff, a cover model, and avid bird-watcher.

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