Once upon a grind
(2014)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MYSTERY/COYLE,C

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Mysteries MYSTERY/COYLE,C Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2014
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

viii, 401 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780425270851 (hardcover), 0425270858 (hardcover), 9780425270851, 0425270858 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"When coffeehouse manager turned amateur sleuth Clare Cosi roasts "magic" beans for Fairy Tale Week, she brews up a vision that leads to a sleeping beauty in Central Park; a big, bad wolf of Wall Street; and an East Side enclave with storybook secrets... Fairy tale fever has descended on New York City. Broadway fans are flocking to Red Riding Hood: The Musical; museums are exhibiting art inspired by the Brothers Grimm; and Clare Cosi gives her coffee truck a "Jack and the Beanstalk" makeover for a Central Park festival. Clare's coffee hunter ex-husband contributes a bag of African beans with alleged magical properties. His octogenarian mother entertains customers with readings of the grinds, but Clare remains skeptical--until she receives a vision that helps her find a young model's body in the park's woods. The police dismiss "sleeping beauty" as the victim of a drug overdose. Then Clare uncovers evidence that points to a roster of suspects, from a wolf of Wall Street to a New York Giant and a wicked witch of the West Side. Now Clare is really in the woods--with a dangerous predator on her heels and an investigation that leads from a secret Prince Charming club right back to her own NYPD detective boyfriend. If she doesn't solve this mystery, those magic beans predict an unhappy ending"-- Dust jacket