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The holiday season is upon us and Lucy Stone, mother of four, grandmother of one and part-time reporter at her small-town paper, is investigating a yuletide murder in the small town of Tinker’s Cove, Maine! The best thing about Christmas in Tinker’s Cove has always been the annual Cookie Exchange, nut the usual generosity and goodwill is missing from this year’s event which turns out to be a complete disaster. Petty rivalries and feuds that have long been simmering finally come to a boil, leaving a bad taste in the mouths of many guests, including Lee Cummings who accuses Tucker Whitney of stealing her recipe for low-fat, sugar-free cookies. But the icing on the cake is when Tucker is found strangled in her apartment on the following morning. Who could’ve wanted Tucker dead badly enough to kill her?
Follow Lucy as she sets out on the trail of a murderer and soon uncovers a Christmas secret best left wrapped. She always brings her famous Santa’s Thumbprints cookies to the cookie exchange, bake your own bunch to spread some holiday cheer!
Santa’s Thumbprints
- 1C shortening
- ½ C granulated sugar
- ½ C brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ t vanilla
- ½ t almond extract
- ½ t each baking soda, salt
- 1 ½ C uncooked oatmeal
- 2 C flour
- 6oz semisweet chocolate chips
- Beat shortening, add sugars, beat til fluffy.
- Add egg and extracts, mix well.
- Stir in flour, baking soda, salt, and oatmeal.
- Shape dough into small balls about the size of a walnut, place on baking sheet, and press hollow in top of each cookie.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
- Melt chocolate and spoon into center of each cookie.
- Chill until the melted chocolate is firm.
- Makes about 3 dozen.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LESLIE MEIER is the acclaimed author of over twenty-five Lucy Stone mysteries and has also written for Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. She is currently at work on the next Lucy Stone mystery. Readers can visit her website at http://www.LeslieMeier.com.