November 2015
On Sale: November 3, 2015
Featuring: Lee Woodyard
336 pages ISBN: 0451473809 EAN: 9780451473806 Kindle: B00SI025Y8 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From the bestselling author of The Chocolate Clown Corpse, itβs murder, my sweet, for a chocolatier whose love of old crime films plunges her into a real-life murder where the motives arenβt so black and whiteβ¦
The Warner Pier tourism board is kicking off its Tough Guys and Private Eyes film festival with The Maltese Falcon, and Lee Woodyard and her Aunt Nettie are preparing a delicious chocolate noir tie-in at TenHuis Chocolade. What Lee isnβt prepared for is a face from the past: Jeff Godfrey, her former stepson. The last time Jeff showed up in town, he wound up being accused of murder. Now he says heβs only in Warner Pier to see Bogart on the big screen. Honest.
Jeff may now be a college grad, but that doesnβt mean heβs any less naΓ―ve than the kid Lee had to bail out of trouble earlier. There are all those strange phone calls, a girlfriend whoβs secretly on Jeffβs tail, and a pack of suspicious-sounding acquaintances right out of Dashiell Hammett. Then Jeff goes missing, the Falcon theme is haunting everyone, and a body falls at Leeβs feet when she opens the front door β just like in the movie.
Now Lee is under deadline to rewrite the ending of a cunning killerβs increasingly convincing murder plotβ¦
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