Misfortune Cookies

Title: MISFORTUNE COOKIES
Author: Linda P. Kozar
Publisher: Heartsong Presents Mysteries
2008
ISBN: 978-1-59789-929-1
Genre: Inspirational/cozy mystery

Best friends Sue Jan and Lovita own a beauty shop/boutique and love food and fun. The difference is that Sue Jan is boy crazy, but refuses to see the man right in front of her. Lovita has given up on love and marriage.

When eating lunch in a Chinese restaurant, Lovita gets a strange fortune from the cookie – “your father was murdered. A man in a Stetson will tell you more tomorrow.” Lovita’s life was thrown into a tailspin. She’d believed her father died of a heart attack.

However, when the man in a Stetson shows up, Lovita finds herself led into a world of international spy rings, devastatingly handsome strangers, and other strange fortunes in their fortune cookies!

MISFORTUNE COOKIES is a humorous story set in a small town in Texas, with two Chinese restaurants owned by the same family! So the misfortune cookies literally showed up where Lavita did. I had to keep reading to find out whether her father was really murdered or whether it was a heart attack as they believed.

There are two yummy sounding recipes included at the end of the book, but to be honest I’m kind of afraid to try them since the book used them to make some characters sick (though I’m sure the correct recipe is the one in the book). Full of fun, romance, and intrigue, there is even a tornado thrown in for good measure. Don’t miss MISFORTUNE COOKIES. $6.95, available from www.amazon.com. 249 pages.