USA Today Bestselling AuthorBooks 1, 2, and 3 from bestselling series, Death by ChocolateBOOK 1: DEATH BY CHOCOLATE Lindsay Powell’s only secret is the recipe for her chocolate chip cookies, but she is surrounded by neighbors with deadly secrets. Suddenly Lindsay finds herself battling poisoned chocolate, a dead man who doesn’t seem very dead and a psycho stalker. Her best friend and co-worker, … 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 and to save her own life, 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 and the inside of maximum security prisons.
Lindsay needs more than a chocolate fix to survive all this chaos.
BOOK 2: MURDER, LIES, AND CHOCOLATE
Rodney Bradford comes into Lindsay’s restaurant, eats her brownies, and drops dead on her sidewalk. Lindsay enlists the aid of her enigmatic neighbor, Fred, to help solve the mystery of his death while trying to keep her police detective boyfriend, Trent, from getting in their way with his insistence on all those silly cop rules.
On the positive side, sales skyrocket for the special dessert Lindsay calls Murdered Man’s Brownies.
BONUS! Chocolate recipes included. Poison optional.
BOOK 3: THE GREAT CHOCOLATE SCAM
After two years of waiting, Rick has finally agreed to sign the divorce papers and give Lindsay her freedom. But while she’s waiting in her lawyer’s office for him to appear, his car blows up in his driveway. Lindsay is left with an image of her estranged husband’s green SUV flying around the neighborhood along with pieces of Rick—a blue contact lens in Mrs. Hawkins’ driveway, a perfectly creased trouser leg hanging on the street sign, a vertebra on the immaculate lawn.
Since their divorce wasn’t final and Rick has no family, Lindsay assumes she is his only heir. But before his estate is settled, poor orphan Rick has more relatives than a lottery winner.
Is the obnoxious Rickie Jr. really Rick’s son? Why is the woman who claims to be Rick’s mother so certain the child is not her grandson? Are these people really related to Rick, or was he actually an alien stranded on earth when the mother ship left without him?
Come for the Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars, stay for the murder, mayhem and fun!
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Very enjoyable. Easy read.
I have finished the first two novels in this set and am well into the third. All three are tremendous fun and greatly entertaining. The mystery part of the plots kept me guessing and the intrepid if sometimes recklessly foolish heroine, Lindsay Powell has me laughing out loud. Her faithful feline companion, King Henry, is no less amusing. Her neighbors, Paula and Fred are her companions in crime solving.
I definitely recommend this series and all the books include chocolate recipes to boot.
Thoroughly enjoyed this 3 book set. I definitely would read this author again!
I really enjoyed reading the first three books in the series and look forward to continuing with them.
Great fun read. Started the first book early in the evening and was up til early in the morning because I couldn’t put it down.
Wanted to get more but unable to sync with Amazon on the next book
I enjoyed the main characters in each of these mysteries! Definitely a page turner. I hated to put each of the books down. Witty humor mixed with mystery.
Stayed up til early morning to finish the first book thinking it was a fluke. Did for each of the others too!!!
Fun read. Good story line.
Cute book very entertaining and witty. Characters are very realistic
Stressed? Here’s your Rx: this book, cellphone turned off, and chocolates nearby. Your blood pressure will drop 20 points, minimum.
Way too much Coke drinking! Would have been much more entertaining without the quantity of Coke being drunk by the chocolatier much less all her friends.