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Virginia Lowell is an American author of cozy mystery novels.

She is best known for writing the national bestselling Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery Series.

Virginia's love for murder mysteries propels her writing, despite the fact that she was raised in a beautifully peculiar and sleepy town in the Midwest where murder was as rare as it was infrequent.

The author currently makes her home in the icy north where she resides with her husband and two overbearing cats.

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Genres: Cozy Mystery, Mystery

United States

Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery

  1. Cookie Dough Or Die (2011)
  2. A Cookie Before Dying (2011)
  3. When the Cookie Crumbles (2012)
  4. One Dead Cookie (2013)
  5. Cookies and Scream (2014)
  6. Dead Men Don't Eat Cookies (2015)

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Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery

Cookie Dough Or Die

Olivia Greyson is the proud owner of The Gingerbread House-a quaint shop that specializes in all things cookie-and her best friend, Maddie, is her sidekick, baking up scrumptious treats for their cookie-themed parties. But now they must take a break from baking and find a killer, or else their reputation-and quite possibly their lives-will be battered for good.

Author: Virginia Lowell
First Release: 2011
Ebook: B004GXC8DO
Publisher: Berkley
A Cookie Before Dying

On a stormy night, Olivia Greyson and her Yorkie discover the body of a man stabbed to death-which looks suspiciously like the intruder seen fleeing the local health food store The Vegetable Plate. Charlene Critch, owner of The Vegetable Plate, has a grudge against Olivia's cookie cutter shop, but could Charlene be hiding a secret serious enough to kill for?

Author: Virginia Lowell
First Release: 2011
Ebook: B005GSZIEO
Publisher: Berkley
When the Cookie Crumbles

Olivia Greyson is the proud owner of The Gingerbread House--a quaint shop that specializes in all things cookie--and her best friend, Maddie, is her sidekick, baking up scrumptious treats for their parties. But the real-life version of their magnificent gingerbread house is about to crumble to pieces...

Tensions are running high as Chatterley Heights' 250th birthday celebration approaches, and Olivia and Maddie are working feverishly to finish a gingerbread house modeled after the famous Chatterley Mansion. When Paine Chatterley, presumed to be dead, shows up to claim his father's house, the town gossips are driven into a tizzy. And when he refuses to allow visitors to tour the mansion during the celebration, all the preparations seem for naught.

Then Paine is found lifeless in the bathtub, his wife hysterical and their precious heirlooms destroyed. The hidden lives of the prestigious Chatterley family members begin to surface, and Olivia must unravel their dark past. As it turns out, the town's history isn't all that sweet...

Author: Virginia Lowell
First Release: 2012
ISBN: 978-1410454317
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
One Dead Cookie

Olivia Greyson is the proud owner of The Gingerbread House—a quaint shop that specializes in all things cookie—and her best friend, Maddie, is her sidekick, baking up scrumptious treats for their cookie-themed parties. But a dead body on their front porch might put their bake shop in a truly sticky situation…

Olivia is busy baking up special cookies for Maddie’s upcoming engagement party when soap star Trevor Lane shows up unexpectedly in town. It soon becomes clear that Trevor, who grew up in the neighboring town of Twiterton, left behind a number of enemies with long memories. Even Trevor’s assistant and childhood friend, Dougie, seems to harbor a grudge against him.

Soon after his arrival, Trevor is found dead on The Gingerbread House porch, his handsome face branded with the image of a cookie cutter. When their friend Stacey is implicated in the murder, Olivia and Maddie rush to find the killer. Because it seems someone in Chatterley Heights has a sweet tooth for revenge...

Author: Virginia Lowell
First Release: 2013
ISBN: 978-1410468000
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Cookies and Scream

Olivia Greyson is the proud owner of The Gingerbread House—a quaint shop that specializes in all things cookie—and her best friend, Maddie, is her sidekick, baking up scrumptious treats for their cookie-themed parties. But when a stunning antique cookie cutter collection leads to murder, things get a bit too hot to handle…

Author: Virginia Lowell
First Release: 2014
ISBN: 978-1410477026
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Dead Men Don't Eat Cookies

Olivia’s mom, Ellie, is always cooking up new schemes, but her latest idea has Livie and Maddie especially excited. Ellie’s converting an old boarding house into an arts and crafts school—one that, of course, houses a kitchen for those interested in baking. But right as renovations start, the workers discover a pile of bones buried within the boarding house’s walls, evidence of a long forgotten crime.

A silver necklace with a cookie cutter charm is found within the remains, convincing one of the workers that the bones are the remains of her father, who’s been missing for over five years. Of course, Livie and Maddie can’t resist the allure of investigating. But they’re about to discover that digging up the secrets of the past can be deadly dangerous…

Author: Virginia Lowell
First Release: 2015
ISBN: 978-1410486615
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing Large Print