USA TODAY BESTSELLER!First book in the Death by Chocolate series Lindsay loves chocolate. It tastes good, it makes her feel good, it never cheats on her like her almost-ex-husband. It’s her best friend. But someone wants her dead and uses her weak spot—chocolate—to try to murder her. Lindsay’s only secret is the recipe for her chocolate chip cookies, but she is surrounded by neighbors with deadly … by neighbors with deadly secrets. Suddenly she finds herself battling poisoned chocolate, a psycho stalker, and a dead man who seems awfully active for a corpse.
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, 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, the inside of maximum security prisons and how to take someone down with a well-aimed kick to his chin.
As Lindsay battles the elusive stalker, poisoned chocolate, and the dead man, she will need more than a chocolate fix to survive. But that’s always a good start.
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I didn’t start our liking the book as a little lame; however ended up liking enough to order the second book.
Was not a good read. Poor character development and a silly storyline
It starts off slow is the only reason I did not give this book 5 stars. I really enjoyed the characters and their friendships.
Lindsey, who is divorcing her husband of five years, gets to keep her business “Death by Chocolate.” Her neighbor and friend, Paula, works with Lindsey, but Paula has taken a long tome to warm up and share confidences. The reader suspects that Paula is in the witness protection program or something like that because she is extremely paranoid. On …
I couldn’t put this book down! I finally finished it way into the night!