Coffeehouse Mystery #14
Berkley Prime Crime
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.