Description
The perfect proposal leads to a chilling cold case in this novel in the New York Times bestselling Coffeehouse Mystery series.
After everything Clare and her NYPD detective boyfriend have been through, they deserve a little bit of happily ever after. But while Mike's marriage proposal to Clare is steeped in perfection, the celebration of their engagement is not long lived.
First, a grim-faced attorney interrupts their party with a mysterious letter bequeathing a hidden treasure to Clare's daughter. Next, the world-famous jeweler who designed Clare's ring is found poisoned in his shop. Both events appear to be connected to a cold case murder involving a sunken ship, an Italian curse, a charming jewel thief, and a shocking family secret. With deadly trouble brewing, Clare must track down clues in some of New York's most secret places before an old vendetta produces fresh corpses.
With recipes to die for, including how to make cold-brew coffee at home!
About the Author
JoinCleo's Coffee Clubfor bonus recipes and giveaways:Click Here to Subscribe to Cleo’s Free NewsletterCLEO COYLEis theNew York TimesandPublishers Weeklybestselling pseudonym for Alice Alfonsi, writing in collaboration with her husband, Marc Cerasini. With more than 1 million books sold, they have gained an enthusiastic following. Cleo's "relenlessly entertaining" (Criminal Element) novels have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Czech. Their books have earned starred reviews fromLibrary JournalandKirkus, Best of Year selection honors from multiple reviewers, and have been recommended byBooklistas among the best culinary mysteries for core library mystery collections.When not haunting coffeehouses, hunting ghosts, or wrangling their rescued stray cats, Alice and Marc areNew York Timesbestselling media tie-in writers who have penned properties for Lucasfilm, NBC, Fox, Disney, Imagine, Toho, and MGM. One of those projects (ghostwritten by Alice Alfonsi) was named byEntertainment Weeklyas the best media tie-in book written that year.CONNECT WITH CLEOatCleoCoyle.comandCoffeehouseMystery.com*******CLEO'S TWO BESTSELLING SERIES:Cleo’sCoffeehouse Mysteryseries, celebrated for pioneering both the “urban cozy" and “coffee cozy” mystery genres, follows the adventures of amateur sleuth Clare Cosi, a single mom with a complicated love life who manages a Greenwich Village coffeehouse and a crew of quirky baristas who helps her solve perplexing crimes.Cleo’sHaunted Bookshop Mysteryseries, hailed as a highly original and "utterly charming" (Mystery Scene) blend of cozy and hardboiled genres, features an earnest young New England widow who catches criminals with the help of a gumshoe ghost, the irrepressible spirit of a tough private detective who’d been gunned down in her bookshop decades before.*******LATEST BOOK NEWS:Don't miss the upcoming title in Cleo's long-running Coffeehouse Mystery series,NO ROAST FOR THE WEARY,now available for pre-order. Cleo's most recent release,BULLETPROOF BARISTA,was a "wildly entertaining" (Criminal Elment) national mystery bestseller; a #1 category best seller for Amazon; and honored with 2 Best of Year list selections by reviewers. The previous book in the series, "a honey of a tale" (Kirkus)HONEY ROASTEDis now available in a new paperback edition.Cleo's latest Haunted Bookshop Mystery releases includeTHE GHOST AND THE STOLEN TEARS,praised byKirkusas "a gem of a story." AndTHE GHOST GOES TO THE DOGS,a #1 category best seller for Amazon, whichFresh Fictioncalled "amazing and unique." The next Haunted Bookshop adventure is now underway!