Death by Chocolate Snickerdoodle
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4.3 • 24 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher 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
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The annual Cookie-Baking Contest is just a few days away in Graves's well-crafted fourth Death by Chocolate mystery (after 2020's Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut), and Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and Ellie White, the owners of the Chocolate Moose bakery in Eastport, Maine, plan to enter, but they're sidetracked by the hatchet murder of town curmudgeon Alvin Carter. The two ladies have developed a reputation as snoops, but they have good reason to get involved this time, since a loyal friend of theirs, Billy Breyer, who did yard work for Alvin and found the body, is the Eastport police chief's prime suspect. Jake and Ellie, who are sure Billy is innocent, come to realize plenty of others might have had it in for Alvin, including Billy's ramrod-stiff great-aunt, who spent a lot of time arguing with Alvin. More crimes occur, including a shooting, and a dangerous wildfire seems to be a case of arson directed at the bakery partners. Graves does a good job keeping readers guessing with multiple potential motives. Fans of cozies with a dark edge will have fun.
Customer Reviews
Sarah Graves’s Death by Chocolate Snickerdoodle
What 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.
So so
Please make your main character less bumbling, please!