In Joanne Fluke’s ‘Gingerbread Cookie Murder,’ Hannah Swensen finds her neighbour Ernie Kusak with his mind bashed in and sprawled on to the floor of his condo next for an upended box of Hannah’s Gingerbread Cookies – and discovers a flurry of murder suspects that’s so long as her holiday shopping list. Jaine Austen, the heroine of Laura Levine’s ‘The Dangers of Gingerbread Cookies,’ finds herself enlisted to help with her parents’ retirement community’s play ‘The Gingerbread Cookie That Saved about Gingerbread Cookie Murder Christmas’. Playboy Dr. Preston McCay is usually playing the part of the gingerbread cookie when he ‘accidentally’ falls to his loss of life during the final act. Today Jaine must figure out if among the doctor’s jealous enthusiasts was capable of murder. In ‘Gingerbread Cookies and Gunshots’ by Leslie Meier, when Lucy Rock discovers the body of Rick Juergens, whose five-year-old son Nemo disappeared, she senses bad play. Crumbs from a gingerbread cookie Lucy gave to Nemo are located in the back seat of Rick’s car. With the hours quickly ticking till Xmas, Lucy races against the clock to find a killer before he strikes again.