Christmas Candy Corpse
Six ambitious bakers are competing on a baking show for glory and a grand prize, showcasing their most delicious candies, cookies, and desserts. Courtney detects some on-set grinchiness from her coworkers, especially judge Shannon Collins, but she’s hoping the sweet treats will restore everyone’s festive spirits. That Christmas wish swiftly fizzles when assistant director Kinzy Hummel is found strangled with an apron from Shannon’s new product line.
Shannon insists she’s innocent. Meanwhile, Kinzy had been under pressure from a disgruntled attorney to settle her late grandfather’s estate. But could that be a motive for murder? The show must go on even as Courtney sifts through competitors and crew for likely suspects. But unless she can quickly get to the truth, there’ll be another helping of homicide amid the pinwheel cookies and fruitcakes.
The Details
Series: A Courtney Archer Mystery – Book #3
Author: Rosemarie Ross
Genre/Category: Cozy – Culinary/Holiday
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
ISBN: 1496722795
Page Count: 304
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The Review
Courtney is a delightful character in a cast of other delightful characters. Her latest exploits in Christmas Candy Corpse solidify her as a character of distinction, making her one of the most memorable cozy book characters in print. This Christmas-inspired story will make readers put down the holiday decorations, pick up some treats, and spend a few hours enjoying this delectable story. But what it won’t do, is make readers want to apply for a baking show or work for one!
Most problems in Courtney’s life can be solved with baked goods, candy, and other delicious sugar-infused delicacies, or so it seems. But something as unappetizing as murder during the Christmas season puts a sour flavor in her mouth. The contestants on the baking show are at each other’s throats and willing to do almost anything to win. When Courtney’s friend, Shannon, becomes a suspect in the murder of a crew member, she finds her desire to bake her problems away simply won’t help. Suspects and motives vary from sabotage, from the baking show competitors to family problems with an aggressive attorney, and disgruntled co-workers who are jealous and ambitious.
Christmas Candy Corpse finds Courtney tracking down a killer who is determined to stop her. Her life is turned upside down, and her career hangs in the balance. Courtney finds that her friend is the number one suspect, and it doesn’t help that Shannon is acting strange. The baking show contestants all have motives, and the clues change and in some cases, disappear. With a killer who could strike again at any moment, readers will find themselves captivated and thrilled with an outcome they didn’t see coming. In the final moments, Courtney reveals the killer, and the motive will leave readers speechless. Christmas baking shows will never be the same.
The Author
Rosemarie is neither a chef, gourmet cook nor television cooking star, but she loves watching them and turned that love into a cozy mystery series. She is the author of the Courtney Archer Mysteries, a series set around the filming of a popular television baking competition.
Rosemarie Ross is a pseudonym of multi-published in multi-genres author, Rose Ross Zediker who writes contemporary and historical inspirational romances novels whose titles have appeared on ECPA bestseller lists and been finalists for the RITA, National Reader’s Choice, Booksellers Best, and Book Buyers Best award contests.
Readers will want to start at the beginning of the “A Courtney Archer Mystery” series to get full enjoyment from the characters and setting with book one, Cobblered to Death.
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