Chocolate Chip Cookie Conundrum: Cozy Mystery (MURDER IN THE MIX Book 32) by Addison Moore

Author:Addison Moore [Moore, Addison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hollis Thatcher Press, LTD.
Published: 2021-03-10T18:30:00+00:00

Lottie

Hollyhock is the neighboring town to the east of Honey Hollow, and it just so happens to be where Noah grew up before his father nuked their family and moved his boys to a far ritzier town named Fallbrook to live with his new wife, Eliza Baxter.

And after a half hour drive, we finally make it to the fairgrounds. There’s a large sign staked between two rugged wooden posts up above that reads Welcome to the Annual Chili Pepper Festival! Fire in the hole!

Carlotta belts out a laugh. “At least they’re honest.” She gives a few sniffs while clutching Cluck Norris tightly in her arms. “I think I smell cornbread.”

“Corn?” The friendly fowl’s head bops up and down with excitement. “That’s my favorite food. Lottie, you really should consider baking a corn cake. Or corn cookies.”

“Or corn brownies,” Carlotta adds and Everett groans.

“I don’t want to know what that conversation is about,” he says, picking up my hand and kissing the back of it.

“Ooh,” I moan, taking in the sweet scent myself. “I bet it’s cheesy jalapeño cornbread. That’s my favorite. While I was pregnant with Lyla Nell, I really broadened my culinary palate.” My chest bucks with a hiccup and the tears start flowing again. “Lyla Nell. I bet she thinks I’ve abandoned her.”

“There, there, Lot.” Carlotta slings an arm around my shoulders. “I dropped enough pamphlets from the Honey Hollow Fire Department around the house and you didn’t take the bait. That kiddo is stuck with you no matter how ruffled her feathers get.”

“It’s true on both counts,” I say. “You’ve crop-dusted the entire house with those pamphlets, and Lyla Nell is stuck with me forever.”

Carlotta drove up with Noah, Everett, and me. Mayor Nash said he’d meet us here in a bit, and as soon as Evie heard where we were headed, she and her friends zipped out this way, too. And I do mean zipped. She’s already texted me three different pictures of herself at the fairgrounds. One with a jalapeño pepper hat on, one knee-deep in a chicken coop, in which she let me know she wanted to steal a rooster to have her own Cluck Norris, and the third was of her and Conner kissing under a sign that read hot lips. Needless to say, I didn’t tell Everett about that one. No need for him to have a heart attack while he was at the driver’s wheel.

The crowds are thick, and the scent of fried food lights up our senses. It’s becoming clear Woody Hawthorne is no longer the star of this show, the food is. I plan on having just a little bit of everything, and I have a feeling that will equal a whole lot of deliciousness.

“Lyla Nell is stuck with me forever, too,” Noah says as we make our way into the festival. “So you can stop crop-dusting my house with those pamphlets as well, Carlotta. Lyla Nell isn’t going anywhere.”

Carlotta huffs, “Who says I was hinting at getting rid of Lyla Nell? There’s a certain brunette who I share a bathroom with who hogs all the hot water.

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