But she'd better watch out, because if she fails to stop this stone cold killer, she may just get the biggest chill of her life. Then someone tries to ice Clare, and she really gets steamed. With Clare's boyfriend, NYPD Detective Mike Quinn, distracted by a cold case of his own, and ex-husband Matt investigating this year's holiday lingerie catalogs (an annual event), Clare charges ahead solo to solve her beloved Santa's slaying. Publication date 2010 Topics Cosi, Clare (Fictitious character) - Fiction, Coffeehouses - Fiction, Cosi, Clare (Fictional character.

When she finds him brutally gunned down in a nearby alley, a few subtle clues convince her that Alfred's death was something more than the tragic result of a random mugging, the conclusion of the police. Murder has no place in such a pretty picture, until now.Coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi has grown very fond of Alfred Glockner, the part-time comic and genuinely jolly charity Santa who's been using her Village Blend as a place to warm his mittens.

Streetlights shimmer through icy flakes, cafés glow with welcoming warmth, and a layer of snow dusts historic townhouses like powdered sugar on holiday confections. (Apr.Pp384 Mass Market Paperback in very good condition clean pages but inside front/back covers are darkened Creased SpineThere's nothing cozier than a winter evening in Greenwich Village. This entry is sure to delight old fans and garner new ones. Could the two incidents be connected? Coyle (the husband-and-wife team of Alice Alfonsi and Marc Cerasini) serves up some tantalizing descriptions of the scents and flavors of coffee and assorted edibles, as well as musings on the dating scene in the digital age. Clare Cosi, the Village Blend’s manager, later goes to meet her former mother-in-law for a late dinner at a waterfront restaurant, where Clare discovers the body of a regular Village Blend customer floating in the river. Shots are fired, and the whole incident is captured on at least a dozen phones. One evening, a young woman brandishing a gun charges up to the coffeehouse’s lounge and threatens the life of a man whom she met through the app. In Coyle’s well-crafted 17th Coffeehouse mystery (after 2017’s Dead Cold Brew), the Village Blend, a Greenwich Village coffeehouse, is doing a booming business, thanks to being listed as a great place to meet up with potential dates on a hot new dating app.

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