Triple Chocolate Murder: Books 1, 2, & 3 Death by Chocolate series

by Sally Berneathy

Genres: Animal Cozy Mysteries; Female Sleuths; female sleuth; Cozy Mystery; culinary cozy; cat cozy mystery; Cozy Mystery Series; chocolate cozy; humorous mystery

Synopsis

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Books 1, 2, and 3 from bestselling series, Death by Chocolate

 

BOOK 1: DEATH BY CHOCOLATE Lindsay's only secret is the recipe for her chocolate chip cookies, but she is surrounded by neighbors with deadly secrets. Suddenly Lindsay finds herself battling poisoned chocolate, a dead man who doesn't seem very dead and a psycho stalker. Her best friend and co-worker, Paula, dyes her blond hair brown, hides from everybody and insists on always having an emergency exit from any room. Secrets from Paula's past have come back to put lives in jeopardy. Determined to help Paula and to save her own life, Lindsay enlists the reluctant aid of another neighbor, Fred, an OCD computer nerd. In spite of his mundane existence, Fred possesses tidbits of knowledge about such things as hidden microphones, guns and the inside of maximum security prisons. Lindsay needs more than a chocolate fix to survive all this chaos.

BOOK 2: MURDER, LIES, AND CHOCOLATE Rodney Bradford comes into Lindsay's restaurant, eats her brownies, and drops dead on her sidewalk. Lindsay enlists the aid of her enigmatic neighbor, Fred, to help solve the mystery of his death while trying to keep her police detective boyfriend, Trent, from getting in their way with his insistence on all those silly cop rules. On the positive side, sales skyrocket for the special dessert Lindsay calls Murdered Man's Brownies. BONUS! Chocolate recipes included. Poison optional.

BOOK 3: THE GREAT CHOCOLATE SCAM After two years of waiting, Rick has finally agreed to sign the divorce papers and give Lindsay her freedom. But while she’s waiting in her lawyer’s office for him to appear, his car blows up in his driveway. Lindsay is left with an image of her estranged husband’s green SUV flying around the neighborhood along with pieces of Rick—a blue contact lens in Mrs. Hawkins' driveway, a perfectly creased trouser leg hanging on the street sign, a vertebra on the immaculate lawn. Since their divorce wasn't final and Rick has no family, Lindsay assumes she is his only heir. But before his estate is settled, poor orphan Rick has more relatives than a lottery winner. Is the obnoxious Rickie Jr. really Rick's son? Why is the woman who claims to be Rick's mother so certain the child is not her grandson? Are these people really related to Rick, or was he actually an alien stranded on earth when the mother ship left without him? Come for the Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars, stay for the murder, mayhem and fun!

 

Release date: December 17, 2016

Print pages: 711

Sample

“Died?” I repeated. “Paula’s dead? Of course she’s not dead. What are you saying, that she’s a ghost? You’ve been watching too many of those old horror movies. This is not a movie. Paula is not a ghost.”

Fred heaved a long sigh, scrunched up his mouth and rolled his eyes. “I know she’s not a ghost. But she’s not Paula Walters, either. My guess is, she stole the name and social security number of somebody who died in infancy and used it to change her identity.”

“Wow. That’s the kind of thing you see in the movies. Real people don’t do that.”

He sighed again. “Real people do it all the time. That’s where they got the idea for the movies.”

“I meant, people we know don’t do that. Real people like Paula.”

“Either she faked her own death at the age of two, she’s a ghost, or she changed her identity. Take your pick.”

“All right, I guess we have to go with option C.” I opened the folder and flipped through it. Fred had printed out several sheets of documentation.