Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut
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4.3 • 27 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Bakeshop owners Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and her best friend Ellie White expect they’ll be busy baking up a storm when a pirate festival blows into town—not marooned in a new investigation . . .
Everything is shipshape at Jake and Ellie’s new waterfront bakery, The Chocolate Moose, especially now that the annual Pirate Festival is dropping anchor in their quaint island village of Eastport, Maine. Jake and Ellie are ready for the bounty of tourists sure to flood their shop. But their plans quickly sink when the body of celebrity foodie, Henry Hadlyme, is discovered in the Moose’s basement.
Jake and Ellie are horrified, but their shock turns to dismay when Jake is pegged for the murder. Now, to clear Jake’s name and save the shop, Jake and Ellie must swashbuckle down and figure out who among Henry’s numerous enemies scuttled him in the cellar. Alas, dead men tell no tales, so Jake and Ellie will have to get to the bottom of the case on their own and find the real killer before anyone else is forced to walk the plank . . .
Includes a Recipe!
"A treat for aficionados of shopkeeper-sleuth cozies."
—Kirkus Reviews
“Entertaining. . . . Cozy fans are sure to have fun.”
—Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Pirates have arrived in Eastport, Maine, for the Eastport Pirate Festival in Graves's entertaining third Death by Chocolate mystery (after 2019's Death by Chocolate Malted Milkshake), and costumed tourists and townspeople are swashbuckling all over town. Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and Ellie White, partners in the Chocolate Moose bakery, have survived the kids' party they threw for the rampaging young scallywags and buccaneers, but an encounter with the supremely unpleasant TV food personality Henry Hadlyme provokes Jake into threatening the man in public, not a good idea as it turns out. Eastport's police chief, Bob Arnold, inconveniently finds Jake in the bakery's cellar with a very dead Henry, pierced by a cutlass that belongs to Jake's husband. Jake is, of course, the prime suspect, and she and Ellie are soon chasing down leads to clear her name and find the real killer. Plenty of suspects and a mysterious sailing ship make for an intriguing puzzle. Cozy fans are sure to have fun.
