Author: Sarah Graves
Published: January 30th 2018 by Kensington
Format: eBook, 240 pages
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: A Death by Chocolate Mystery #1
This is a non-starter series for me. Apparently, the first book in the new “Death by Chocolate Mystery” series is a takeoff from the author’s prior “Home Repair is Homicide” series and unless you have read them, which I have not, you too will be confused by references to past incidents in the life of Jacobia Tiptree.
Jacobia, Jake to her friends, and Ellie White have opened a bakeshop in Eastport, Maine. With the upcoming 4th of July festivities, the two ladies have promised an unrealistic number of overly complicated cheesecakes for raffle to offset the cost of fireworks and run into problems when Matt Muldoon’s body is found with his head in a pot of chocolate and Ellie looks like the prime suspect.
It gets improbable from there on with money found where chocolate should be. The two ladies running all over town with no one watching the shop yet people leaving money on the counter for what they have taken. Family members forcing other family members out of their home. Jacobia opening her home up to man and beast because what is a cozy without animals abound. Oh, and do not forget the impending hurricane that can throw what is not already a mess into a complete disaster.
This series is a hard pass for me.
Jacobia, Jake to her friends, and Ellie White have opened a bakeshop in Eastport, Maine. With the upcoming 4th of July festivities, the two ladies have promised an unrealistic number of overly complicated cheesecakes for raffle to offset the cost of fireworks and run into problems when Matt Muldoon’s body is found with his head in a pot of chocolate and Ellie looks like the prime suspect.
It gets improbable from there on with money found where chocolate should be. The two ladies running all over town with no one watching the shop yet people leaving money on the counter for what they have taken. Family members forcing other family members out of their home. Jacobia opening her home up to man and beast because what is a cozy without animals abound. Oh, and do not forget the impending hurricane that can throw what is not already a mess into a complete disaster.
This series is a hard pass for me.
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