Clare's coffee hunter ex-husband contributes a bag of African beans with alleged magical properties. Broadway fans are flocking to Red Riding Hood: The Musical museums are exhibiting art inspired by the Brothers Grimm and Clare Cosi and her merry band of baristas give their coffee truck a "Jack and the Beanstalk" makeover for a Central Park festival. When coffeehouse manager turned amateur sleuth Clare Cosi serves "magic" beans for a Fairy Tale Fall event, she brews up a vision that leads to a sleeping beauty in Central Park a big, bad wolf of Wall Street and an East Side enclave with storybook secrets.įairy tale fever has descended on New York City. This very special holiday entry in Cleo Coyle's nationally bestselling mystery series includes a bonus section of delicious holiday recipes as well as a glossary of coffeehouse terms, instructions on making espressos and lattes without an expensive But she'd better watch out, because if she fails to stop this stone cold killer, she may just get the biggest chill of her life. Then someone tries to ice Clare, and she really gets steamed.
With Clare's boyfriend, NYPD Detective Mike Quinn, distracted by a cold case of his own, and ex-husband Matt investigating this year's holiday lingerie catalogs (an annual event), Clare charges ahead solo to solve her beloved Santa's slaying.
When she finds him brutally gunned down in a nearby alley, a few subtle clues convince her that Alfred's death was something more than the tragic result of a random mugging-the conclusion of the police. Coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi has grown very fond of Alfred Glockner, the part-time comic and genuinely jolly charity Santa who's been using her Village Blend as a place to warm his mittens.
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