323 pages St. Martin’s Paperbacks April 27,2021 publish date
ABOUT THE BOOK
In A Tale of Two Cookies, a cozy mystery from Eve Calder, it’s nothing but sugar and spice at The Cookie House, but elsewhere on Coral Cay everything isn’t so nice.
Pastry chef Kate McGuire is loving life on the laid-back island of Coral Cay, Florida. As junior partner in a bakery renowned for luscious desserts—especially her cookies—life is pretty sweet. So when an old friend arrives and announces a spur-of-the-moment beach wedding, that’s just the icing on the wedding cake.
But the groom vanishes right as a television crew descends on the town to film a hot, new realty show. Is there a connection? Is her friend Desiree somehow involved? Or did groom Judson simply get cold feet? The bride and groom were paired better than warm cookies and cold milk, so Kate doesn’t buy it.
As the show’s cast runs amok on the island and the investigation into Judson’s disappearance heats up, Kate and her pal Maxi, along with town dog Oliver, will brave the rambunctious world of reality TV and a wedding weekend gone awry, in an all-out effort to find the missing groom.
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MY THOUGHTS
A Tale of Two Cookies is the third book in the Cookie House Mystery series. I do enjoy cozy mysteries that involve bakeries. I enjoyed reading about the different types of cookies and baked goods being made and the ingredients used in the recipes.
Now this one is a bit different in the sense that the mystery has no body, just a disappearance.
Coral Cay, Florida is the beautiful setting the wedding will take place in. Sure, it was a quick romance but with the sun, sand and the scents of fresh baked goods in the air a wedding just felt right. Sticking with the old tradition of the bride not seeing the groom until the morning of the wedding when he doesn’t show up everyone is wondering, did he get cold feet?
Could the movie crew that shows up in this tropical location just as the man disappears have something to do with his disappearance? The location of Coral Cay, Florida sounds like it would be a relaxing place to visit. Is the prospective groom dead or just missing? The story had a great plot that wasn’t the same as many others I’ve read.
The small town feel of the book kept it charming and the characters were all so helpful.
This is an author I’ll be reading more of.
Pub Date 27 Apr 2021
I was given a complimentary copy of this book.
All opinions expressed are my own.
Taste of Home Cranberry Lime Macaroons recipe
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Florida native Eve Calder writes the Cookie House mysteries — featuring pastry chef Kate McGuire — for St. Martin’s Press. Look for AND THEN THERE WERE CRUMBS and the new release, SUGAR AND VICE. And visit her website, CookieHouseMysteries.com, for all kinds of Cookie House extras.
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