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, itโs murder, my sweet, for a chocolatier whose love of old crime films plunges her into a real-life murder where the motives arenโt so black and whiteโฆ
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 isnโt 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 heโs only in Warner Pier to see Bogart on the big screen. Honest.
Jeff may now be a college grad, but that doesnโt mean heโs any less naรฏve than the kid Lee had to bail out of trouble earlier. There are all those strange phone calls, a girlfriend whoโs secretly on Jeffโs 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 Leeโs feet when she opens the front door โ just like in the movie.
Now Lee is under deadline to rewrite the ending of a cunning killerโs increasingly convincing murder plotโฆ
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