The Christmas Cookie Killer

It’s Christmastime in Weatherford Texas and retired teacher–cum–amateur sleuth Phyllis Newsom has to deal with a cutthroat Christmas bake-off in this festive Fresh-Baked mystery.   Phyllis would like to think she’s entering the Christmas cookie contest just for fun. But that’s not exactly true. She can’t imagine anyone beating her delicate snowflake-shaped lime sugar cookies although her neighbor Mrs. Simmons’s gingerdoodles might give her a run for her money.   Then during her annual Christmas cookie exchange Phyllis heads over to the elderly Mrs. Simmons’s 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 Santa’s naughty suspect list this case is a cookie Phyllis means to crumble...