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 loved the characters in this book. It was funny, entertaining, great chocolate recipes! I so enjoyed it, I’m now reading book 5 of the series. It’s light-hearted, engaging, and I would recommend it to anybody who loves funny, chocoholic induced laughter.
Likeable characters, lots of action.
The main character makes inane comments through her constant narration. I found the book sophomoric.
The story didn’t keep my interest.
I love mysteries and this was cute.
A fun book for the holidays!
A yummy read
This is an incomplete story. The book ends before the mystery is solved. I guess it’s done to get you to buy the sequel but it’s annoying
Interesting characters and plot twists. I have read the first three in the series and enjoyed each one.
A very good book book.
A great plot, great characters and very well written. I enjoyed this tremendously.
Good story. enjoyed reading it.
Lots of twists and turns!!
fun cozy mystery with recipes
This book was very enjoyable. I liked the storyline and characters and looked forward to opportunities to sit down and read. I am definitely going to read more in this series.
Good characters and a plot that moved along quickly. The author used humor effortlessly, and it offset the serious parts well for an enjoyable read. The relationship between Lindsay and her estranged husband was awkward and didn’t really fit her character; this dragged the number of rating stars down for me.
Loved it! Will read more of this series.
Fun book to read.
I wanted more from this cast of characters as soon as I finished this book, and it had already kept me up later than I should have let it…the last cozy I read was so poorly written in comparison!
I found many of Lindsey’s asides to us readers hilarious. I rarely laugh out loud at a cozy mystery, but I did this one. The story itself has an abused wife hiding out, certainly no laughing matter. So I would say the author has accomplished something when she can entertain us and make us laugh while also presenting us with such a serious & tragic …