Ava Mallory

  Buy Now! My contribution to Christmas Cookie Cozies introduces brand-new characters in a brand-new cozy mystery world. The title is Christmas Cookie Catastrophe. Here's the blurb: Blurb: Consuelo “Cookie” Alvarez is great at a lot of things, but baking isn’t one of them. When she inherits a bakery from her favorite aunt, she’s dead-set on closing the business so she can pursue her dream of becoming a citizen detective and true-crime blogger. What she doesn’t expect is a letter from her late aunt asking her to take her place in the county-wide Christmas Cookie Bake-Off. Now she has two weeks to perfect the super-secret award-winning recipe before the competition, but there are major obstacles in her way: she can’t bake, the recipe is missing, and her competitors are a who's who of shady characters with sticky fingers. Can she fulfill Aunt Birdie’s wishes, or is this where the award-winning cookie crumbles? Want to read an excerpt? Scroll down. “That’s a first.” The baritone vo