A Tisket A Tasket Not Another Casket: A Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mystery
by Heather Weidner
About A Tisket A Tasket Not Another Casket
A Tisket A Tasket Not Another Casket: A Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mystery
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Setting – Virginia
Publisher : Level Best Books (January 14, 2025)
Print length : 277 pages
ASIN : B0DRZ7N3XW
Excitement is in the air as everyone in Mermaid Bay is preparing for the Christmas season. This year promises to be more dazzling than ever when the business council sponsors a competition for the town’s lucrative summer fireworks contract. The quaint little beach town is ready to be wowed with choreographed shows and drone action that light up the night sky.
Instead of goodwill and sparkles, two of the teams take the competition to new lows with corporate espionage, feuds, and sabotage, and Jade and her team at ‘Tis the Season are ground zero for all the explosive action. When one of the competitors turns up murdered near Jade’s shop, she has to solve the mystery before the holidays are ruined.
Patti’s Peppermint Snowball Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup of unsalted, softened butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon peppermint extract
½ teaspoon salt
cup of powdered sugar
1 ¾ cups of flour
½ cup crushed peppermint candies or candy canes
½ cup white chocolate chips
½ cup of additional powdered sugar for the topping
Parchment paper
Directions:
In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter on medium until it’s creamy. Add the vanilla, peppermint extract, and salt. Mix in the 2/3 cup of powdered sugar on low. Gradually add the flour. Mixed in the crushed peppermint candy and the white chocolate chips. Chill the dough mixture in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Roll the chilled dough into small balls about an inch wide. Place about two inches apart on the baking sheets. Chill on the baking sheets for 30 minutes.
Bake the cookies for 14 minutes until lightly golden. (You may want to rotate the pans at the halfway point.)
Cool the cookies for 10 minutes on the baking sheet and then transfer to wire baking racks.
Once the cookies are completely cooled, dust with the remaining powdered sugar.
About Heather Weidner
Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, the Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, and the Pearly Girls Mysteries.
Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, and Murder by the Glass, and she has non-fiction pieces in Promophobia and The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers’ Cookbook.
She is a member of Sisters in Crime: National, Central Virginia, Chessie, Guppies, and Grand Canyon Writers, International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers, and she blogs regularly with the Writers Who Kill.
Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a pair of Jack Russell terriers.
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