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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Death of a Chocolate Cheater by Penny Pike

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Also by Penny Pike:

Death of a Bad Apple, January 2016
Paperback / e-Book
Death of a Chocolate Cheater, June 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Death Of A Crabby Cook, August 2014
Paperback / e-Book

DEATH OF A CHOCOLATE CHEATER
By: Penny Pike

Food Festival Mystery, #2

June 2015
On Sale: June 2, 2015
Featuring: Abby; Darcy
336 pages
ISBN: 0451467825
EAN: 9780451467829
Kindle: B00OQRL4US
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Mystery | Mystery Cozy | Mystery Woman Sleuth

Food truck vendor Darcy Burnett unwraps a murder at the San Francisco Chocolate Festival in this mystery from the author of DEATH OF A CRABBY COOK… At this year’s chocolate festival, Darcy and her Aunt Abby hope to win the $10,000 prize in the chocolate contest with Aunt Abby’s taste sensation: the chocolate raspberry whoopee pie. A little friendly competition from Darcy’s sometime-beau Jake Miller, who plans to enter with his chocolate cream puff delight, only sweetens the deal. But things get sticky when one of the judges, Polly Montgomery, is taken out of commission—permanently. The suspects include every contestant with reason to believe Polly wasn’t too sweet on their sweets, including Aunt Abby’s high school friend. Now Darcy must pick through an assortment of secrets to catch a killer before someone else gets a bittersweet finish.

Food Festival Mystery

Death Of A Crabby Cook
DEATH OF A CRABBY COOK
#1.0 β€’ August 2014
Death of a Chocolate Cheater
DEATH OF A CHOCOLATE CHEATER
#2.0 β€’ June 2015
Death of a Bad Apple
DEATH OF A BAD APPLE
#3.0 β€’ January 2016