The Chocolate Shark Shenanigans
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4.4 • 21 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
In the newest mystery from nationally bestselling author Joanna Carl, a dive into house flipping becomes a deadly flop....
When a house near Lee and Joe's home goes up for sale, the couple teams up with Lee's aunt and uncle, Nettie and Hogan, to buy it, remodel it, and resell it for a sweet profit. But after the owners of the house, the Baileys, accept their offer, a local developer, Richard "Spud" Dirk, suddenly swoops in with a higher one, and it seems their dreams might be snatched away.
Lee, never as passionate about the plan as her husband and uncle, is anxious to get back to focusing on managing TenHuis Chocolade. But when a long-hidden gun is found behind a pipe in the Baileys' basement, she begins to suspect a mystery is afoot. And when Spud turns up dead in the Baileys' carport a few days later, it becomes clear there's something rotten at the foundation....
To solve the murder, Lee will have to strip away layers of secrets--that is, if someone doesn't level her first....
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Carl's delightful 17th Chocoholic mystery (after 2016's The Chocolate Bunny Brouhaha) opens with a bang. Lee Woodyard, who manages her aunt's sweet shop in Warner Pier, Mich., and her husband, Joe, are exploring the old Bailey house, which they plan to buy, fix up, and resell for a profit, with her police chief uncle, Hogan Jones, and plumber Digger Brown when Digger accidentally drops a gun he finds stashed in the basement. The gun goes off, and a bullet barely misses Lee. Next, Hogan discovers the body of small-time developer Spud Dirk, who claimed first dibs on the Bailey place, in the carport. Joe and Lee decide to investigate, backtracking to Joe's school days when the Sharks, a gang of five boys, used to hang out in the Bailey basement. Four of them once pulled a ridiculous fake robbery at the fifth gang member's workplace. Was it a coincidence that irascible Meyer "Curley" McWhirley died, apparently of natural causes, on the same night as the phony holdup? Carl keeps the reader guessing. Those who like their cozies profanity free will be rewarded.
