One Smart Cookie: A Nutrition Mafia Mystery

A Nutrition Mafia Mystery #2

by Maria E. Schneider

Ivy finally lands a real cooking job, but there’s a she must figure out who kidnapped Magnum, the bloodhound who saved her uncle’s life. Uncle Tom, always at the ready with a favor she’ll pay for later, hinders more than helps when he hires feckless Cousin Fidel to search for the puppy.

Slate meets a family ghost—or is it a skeleton? —with his hands in the cookie jar! Following the trail of crumbly clues is obviously a deadly occupation.

Ivy will have to choose her ingredients carefully or this is one recipe that will go up in flames.

Genres: Mystery

235 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 19, 2023

About the author

If you were a character from a book, who would you be??

I'd be a dream catcher, the mystic woven spheres of the American Indian, catching the bad dreams and letting through only the good.

I'd be a dream weaver, she who tells stories woven from bits of dust and starlight.

Reviews

[Kanika G. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Taste For Trouble


Refreshing recipes, horses and hounds, guns and ghosts, this book has it all. Once again, Ivy somehow finds herself waist deep in one of Uncle Tom's murky and dangerous schemes involving guns and graveyards.

Will she successfully navigate the labyrinth of family drama, mischief and miscommunication to ensure the safety of those she cares about?

Read on to find out how the right cocktail of sarcasm, cynicism and humor can get you through the toughest of times.

[Elisabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

They're back

It feels like a gift when your favorite author publishes a new book. And One Smart Cookie meets the high bar previously set for "favorite author".

Magnum (yes that Magnum of the laugh out loud scene in cookie one) is back. Er, well, not exactly back. That's actually the whole point. Where is Magnum?

But ivy is back. And h