From the bestselling author of The Chocolate Clown
Corpse, it’s murder, my sweet, for a chocolatier whose
love of old crime films plunges her into a real-life murder
where the motives aren’t so black and
white…
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 isn’t 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 he’s only in Warner Pier to see Bogart
on the big screen. Honest.
Jeff may now be a
college grad, but that doesn’t mean he’s any less naïve than
the kid Lee had to bail out of trouble earlier. There are
all those strange phone calls, a girlfriend who’s secretly
on Jeff’s 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 Lee’s feet when she opens the front door – just
like in the movie.
Now Lee is under deadline to
rewrite the ending of a cunning killer’s increasingly
convincing murder plot…
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