December 2014
On Sale: December 2, 2014
Featuring: Clare Cosi - amateur sleuth; Madame - Clare's octogenarian employer and former mother-in-law!; NYPD Detective Mike Quinn - Clare's boyfriend
416 pages ISBN: 0425270858 EAN: 9780425270851 Kindle: B00INIXU9Y Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle comes an enchanting new entry in her "satisfyingly rich" Coffeehouse Mystery series.
Coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi and her merry band of baristas give their coffee truck a ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" makeover for a Fairy Tale Festival in New York's Central Park. Clareβs coffee hunter ex-husband contributes a bag of African beans with alleged magical properties, and his octogenarian mother entertains customers with readings of the grinds. Clare remains skeptical about Matt's ""magic"" beans, until she receives a vision that helps her find a young modelβs body in the park's woods.
The police dismiss βsleeping beautyβ as the victim of a drug overdose, but Clare uncovers evidence that points to a list of suspectsβfrom a New York Giant to quite a few wicked witchesβand a cold case murder that reaches back to the Cold War.
Now Clare is really in the woods with a dangerous predator on her heels and an investigation that leads from a secret Prince Charming Club right back to her own NYPD detective boyfriend. If she doesn't solve this mystery, those magic beans predict an unhappy ending.
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