Cookies and Murder

A clean, laugh-out-loud cozy mystery perfect for fans of Janet Evanovich and Leslie Langtry. Book 7 in the Parker Bell series—but jump in anywhere.

Po'thole, Florida has a knack for three things: mayhem, mischief… and murder.

This time, it starts with cookies.

Specifically, Miss Suzie's Delicious CC (chocolate chip) Cookies—formerly warm, gooey, and the pride of the town—are now…crispy. As in burned-to-the-ground cookie factory crispy. Which raises several important questions, like:

Why did it burn?
Why does it smell less like cookies and more like bad decisions?
And why is there a rumor the factory might be tied to a drug cartel known as the Bunny Hop Gang?

(Yes. Bunny. Hop. Gang. No one is taking them seriously, which is probably a mistake.)

Before Parker Bell—bestselling author, cyber security consultant, and full-time chaos magnet—can even process the loss of perfectly good cookies, the factory's new owner turns up dead. Very dead. In the inconvenient, police-tape kind of way.

And somehow—because of course—Parker and the Lady Gatorettes are accused of murder.

Again.

Now Parker's juggling a burned cookie empire, a possibly criminal bunny-themed operation, and a murder charge she definitely didn't earn—while the Lady Gatorettes provide "help," which mostly involves loud opinions, emotional support doughnuts, and occasionally yelling at suspects.

As secrets crumble faster than overbaked cookies, Parker will have to figure out what really happened before she and her friends become the next batch to get…baked.

Because in Po'thole, nothing stays sweet for long.