{ "item_title" : "Death by Gingerbread", "item_author" : [" Nora Dolan", "Generative Ai "], "item_description" : "Forty gingerbread houses, one real lighthouse, and the man who kept the town's books, found at the foot of the town hall steps a week before Christmas.Claire Bennett wanted one thing from her first Christmas in Nettleton Bay: to win the Gingerbread Village with a gingerbread Whisk & Purr. Instead, at twenty to seven on a Saturday morning, she finds Howard Pell behind the hall in the early dark, white with frost, and forty small lit houses inside that have not heard the news.The county says he fell. The town says ice is ice. Claire, who knows what a poured glaze looks like, is not so sure.The company you will keepSheriff Tom Merrill, a judge who cannot tell gingerbread from plywood, scoring a competition the woman he trusts most is entered in. Marion Tolley, who has run the Village for twenty five years and counts everything twice. Dorothy at the town archive, whose log records who came in, which box they asked for, the weather, and her jigsaw, and who has no idea she is keeping evidence. Nell Pell, who apologizes before she speaks and made forty casseroles nobody wanted. Walter Kimball, the harbormaster, who builds a gingerbread lighthouse every year with egg-white icing the way his mother taught him. And Mochi, who watches the door.What you getA fair-play mystery. Every clue is on the page before the answer is, hidden in the icing, the archive log, and a thirty-year-old ledger. Seventeen short chapters, about two hours of reading, set in the week between the judging and Christmas morning. Clean, warm, and dry, with a weight at the center of it: what thirty years of being good in secret is worth against one line in a book.The Nettleton Bay MysteriesBook One: Death by Buttercream, a Halloween cozy mystery. Book Two: Death by Gingerbread. Each book stands alone. Read them in order for the town.Inside the bookSeventeen chapters, from The Gingerbread Village to Christmas Morning. Four of them are pages from Dorothy's own archive log, Friday, Monday, Wednesday and Christmas Eve, so you read the same clues she wrote down without knowing what they meant. Along the way: the Children's Table, the Committee, the Salty Spoon, a funeral, eleven envelopes, the Lantern Room and the Two Pages.About Nettleton BayA small harbor town where everybody knows everybody's business and one person is lying about it. Each Nettleton Bay mystery is built around one holiday, reads in about two hours, and puts every clue on the page before the answer, because a reader who is paying attention deserves a fair chance to win.From the first pageThe town hall smelled of ginger and wet wool, and under that, faintly, of the floor polish Arnie Loach put down every December whether the floor needed it or not.Forty gingerbread buildings stood on the trestle tables in four rows of ten, each with a bulb inside it on a cord, so that the whole room glowed at knee height like a village seen from a hill. Claire Bennett stood in front of the thirty-first of them with a number two writing tip in her hand and decided against it. The sign over the door of her gingerbread Whisk & Purr said THE WHISK & PURR in letters a sixteenth of an inch high, and if she touched it again she would make it worse.She put the tip back in its slot.About the authorNora Dolan grew up in a family that argued about recipes the way other families argue about ball games, and every bake in the Nettleton Bay books is one she has made more than once. She lives near the water with a black cat who is not Mochi but would like you to think so.Please note: this is a short read of about two hours, not a full-length novel.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/895/388/9798953883030_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "9.99", "online_price" : "9.99", "our_price" : "9.99", "club_price" : "9.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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