Cookie Cutter Caper, The: A Cozy Mystery of Shaped Suspicious and Iced Intentions

?? Baker extraordinaire Cookie Carter is known throughout Sugar Creek for her beautifully decorated cookies and annual Christmas cookie contest. But when the town's grumpy food critic is found dead with one of Cookie's custom snowman cookies lodged in his throat, her sweet business turns bitter fast. The police suspect a tragic allergic reaction, but Cookie knows her kitchen is nut-free and her ingredients meticulously sourced. With her bakery's reputation crumbling, Cookie must mix up her own investigation with help from her energetic baking assistant and the handsome food scientist who just moved to town. From suspicious cookie cutter patterns that form a cryptic message to icing colors that don't match her recipes, every sweet detail holds a clue. But when Cookie discovers the victim was writing an exposé on corporate cookie companies stealing small bakery recipes, she realizes this was no accidental death. With the Christmas cookie contest just days away and the killer still at large, Cookie must cut through the doughy deception before she becomes the next victim in this deadly game of cookie cutter capers.