The Snow White Christmas Cookie (31 page)

“Has to. Unless you want to, you know, model it before dinner.”

Des looked up at him through her eyelashes. “If I do that we won’t be eating dinner until ten o’clock.”

“Actually, it might be after midnight. I’m still concussed. I may have forgotten some critically important moves.”

“Not to worry, wow man. I’ll refresh your memory.”

“You’d do that for me?”

“Happy to,” she assured him. “For starters, do you remember where my tattoo is?”

Mitch got that dreamy look on his face. “Oh, yeah…”

Des showed him her smile. “Then I think you’re going to be just fine.”

A
BOUT THE
A
UTHOR

David Handler’s first book in the Berger and Mitry series,
The Cold Blue Blood
, was a Dilys Award finalist and BookSense Top Ten pick. David is also the author of eight novels about the witty and dapper celebrity ghostwriter Stewart Hoag and his faithful, neurotic basset hound, Lulu, including the Edgar and American Mystery Award winner
The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald
. David lives in a two-hundred-year-old carriage house in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Visit his Web site at
www.davidhandlerbooks.com
.

ALSO BY DAVID HANDLER

F
EATURING
B
ERGER &
M
ITRY

The Blood Red Indian Summer

The Shimmering Blond Sister

The Sour Cherry Surprise

The Sweet Golden Parachute

The Burnt Orange Sunrise

The Bright Silver Star

The Hot Pink Farmhouse

The Cold Blue Blood

F
EATURING
H
UNT
L
IEBLING

Click to Play

F
EATURING
S
TEWART
H
OAG

The Man Who Died Laughing

The Man Who Lived by Night

The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Woman Who Fell from Grace

The Boy Who Never Grew Up

The Man Who Cancelled Himself

The Girl Who Ran Off with Daddy

The Man Who Loved Women to Death

F
EATURING
D
ANNY
L
EVINE

Kiddo

Boss

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

THE SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS COOKIE
. Copyright © 2012 by David Handler. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

www.stmartins.com

Cover art by Hugh Syme

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
(TK)

ISBN 978-1-250-00454-3 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-250-01734-5 (e-book)

First Edition: October 2012