Cinnamon Peters is one tough cookie. Every year at Christmas River’s annual Gingerbread Junction Competition, pie baker extraordinaire Cinnamon aims to win, taking down any competitor who gets in her way. But when she finds a dead body in the woods behind her pie shop just days before the big competition, Cinnamon realizes that there’s much more to worry about than cookies, frosting, and gumdrops. Someone’s out to bring Cinnamon down. And they’re playing dirty. Only Cinnamon and a mysterious stranger who walks into her life one snowy evening can figure out the mystery. But can they solve it before Cinnamon’s chances of gingerbread competition glory crumble?
Loved, LOVED, LOVED This Book! Anybody who loves cozy mysteries and holiday themed books and doesn’t have a Kindle is missing out. I believe this book is only available on the Kindle. I was getting burned out on holiday cozies and almost didn’t even start this book. I was hooked from the prologue, though. I love the main character. She is not your typical wimpy, indecisive protagonist. I’m looking forward to reading the next one.
A Good Story to Read in the Christmas Season This is definately a light and easy read. While the story may be predictable to some, I found that it did have some twists and turns I didn’t anticipate. Aside from the fact that building gingerbread houses played a large part of the book, the story could have happened at any time of the year. The name of the town, Christmas River, just adds to the time of the year the book should be read.
Great start to a mystery series Christmas River is the setting of this mystery series and the first book features Cinnamon who sells pies at her bakery. The mystery starts when a poor dog’s owner is killed. He shows up at her shop for several nights, when she feeds him. Finally somehow she and a friend from her past figure out what the dog has been trying to show them. It turns out one of the judges in the gingerbread making contest, that she was hoping to enter again, is dead. And she soon is the main suspect. Will she…