The Christmas Cookie Killer (Fresh-Baked Mystery)

Its Christmastime in Weatherford, Texas, and retired teachercumamateur sleuth Phyllis Newsom has to deal with a cutthroat Christmas bake-off in this festive Fresh-Baked mystery.

Phyllis would like to think shes entering the Christmas cookie contest just for fun. But thats not exactly true. She cant imagine anyone beating her delicate snowflake-shaped lime sugar cookies, although her neighbor Mrs. Simmonss gingerdoodles might give her a run for her money.

Then, during her annual Christmas cookie exchange, Phyllis heads over to the elderly Mrs. Simmonss home and finds the poor thing in a pile of lime sugar cookies, strangled by the belt of her own bathrobe. With a number of names on Santas naughty suspect list, this case is a cookie Phyllis means to crumble...