The season is bright when Calliope “Callie” Costas agrees to contribute her Greek snowball cookies to a December bridal shower at The English Country Inn in the scenic waterfront town of Crystal Bay, WI. But when Callie finds a colleague dead, she's sucked into another murder investigation — all while juggling her growing business and staggering holiday workload.
As she reluctantly agrees to help the Inn’s owner track the killer, Callie is soon up to her spiced Greek biscotti in difficulties. For one thing, the hotel staff is freezing her out as she tries to uncover information, helped by her feisty Grandma Viv and her sweet but nosy aunt who’s visiting from Greece. And then there’s her deepening relationship with the suave and mysterious Detective Sands, a British expat now living in Wisconsin, who seems to have a few secrets of his own.
The icing on the cake is a host of simultaneous family mayhem including her father's surprising fixation on a real estate agent and her ex’s plans to move back to Crystal Bay. As the Inn’s annual Christmas Tea approaches, things are heating up in Callie’s Kitchen, but she’s on thin ice! Will Christmas be a festive celebration this year – or will it be murder?
Apparently the season of Goodwill to All Men doesn't extend to women! The English Country Inn's owner is trapped away from Crystal Bay die to bad weather so one of her staff is running things in her absence, Callie has been asked to provide some seasonal Greek cookies for a Bridal Shower (where the Bride is a bit of a Bridezilla – but her mother is even worse!), she has arrived with them and is just helping out by checking that all the staff are in the right place and ready when Callie comes across the body of the woman running the shower! Now in between trying to keep on top of her business, wondering about her friend's love life (err and her father's!), trying to figure out if SHE has a love life with Detective Sands or not, wondering if she can cope with her ex-husband and his current wife living two blocks away (great for their daughter, not so great for Callie) oh and hoping that Grandma Viv and Aunt "Sweetie" can stay out of trouble, can she help solve the crime before Christmas?
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