Death by Chocolate Snickerdoodle
By Sarah Graves
- Release Date: 2021-02-23
- Genre: Women Sleuths
Description
This fun new story from a rising star of culinary cozies is just what your sweet mystery tooth is craving. The Chocolate Moose Bakeshop and its irresistible pastries are as delicious and delightful as the fourth installment in the Death By Chocolate series by Sarah Graves.
As co-owners of Eastport’s beloved waterfront bakery, the Chocolate Moose, Jake and Ellie know their customers expect them to cream the competition at the town’s annual Cookie Baking Contest. But they’re really just in it for fun, hoping to get Jake’s daughter-in-law baking again. Those plans collapse when fearsome local curmudgeon Alvin Carter is murdered, and every crumb of evidence points to Tiptree family friend—and all-around sweet guy—Billy Breyer.
Billy’s sisters beg Jake and Ellie to prove his innocence. After all, lots of folks had gone sour on Alvin, whose popularity ranked somewhere between a toothache and the plague. But just as the ladies begin sifting through the suspects, a series of grass fires blaze across the island, threatening catastrophe. Now, Jake and Ellie will need all their courage—and an extra dash of that downeast Maine stubbornness—to sniff out the real killer before anyone else gets burned . . .
Includes a Recipe!
“A treat for aficionados of shopkeeper-sleuth cozies." —Kirkus Reviews
“Entertaining. . . . Cozy fans are sure to have fun.” —Publishers Weekly
Reviews
Sarah Graves’s Death by Chocolate Snickerdoodle
5By Carol M SmithWhat an intriguing, suspenseful, scary read!! Eastport, Maine is the home of Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and Ellie White and their families. Together the two own and run The Chocolate Moose which is the waterfront bakery in Eastport. When Jake’s son, Sam comes running into Jake’s house and asks his mom to come with him to where he and his business partner, Billy are currently working, it is because Billy found the towns, most disliked man dead with a hatchet in his head. The man’s death looks like it will be blamed on Billy. Jake and Ellie decide to prove Billy innocence. This leads to a lot of shenanigans on Jake and Ellie’s part……breaking and entering, someone already doing the same before them, finding another body under a old barn, wills, wills and more wills, a car explosion, a huge wildfire plus a cast of quirky, colorful, some unsavory, some plain noisy and mean characters for the two amateur to encounter. Meanwhile the bakery is entered into Eastport, Maine’s Great Downeast Snickerdoodle Bake-Off. On the home front, you will meet Jake’s daughter-in-law who is dealing with the young children fog, the elderly housekeeper who is slowing down but won’t admit it, the elderly father who likes to take his evening walks without announcing where he is going…..of course, Jake and Ellie deal with all these problems. The reader will love meeting all the family characters. I felt right at home with them as they were very, well defined and relatable with regular family life.
