In Dorothy St. James’s third delectable Southern
Chocolate Shop mystery, a new batch of chocolate and
troubles of the heart cause a string of disasters for the
Chocolate Box’s new owner, Charity Penn.
The vintage seaside town of Camellia Beach, South Carolina
seems like the perfect place for romance with its quiet
beach and its decadent chocolate shop that serves the
world’s richest dark chocolates. The Chocolate Box’s owner,
Charity Penn, falls even further under the island’s moonlit
spell as she joins Althea Bays and the rest of the turtle
watch team to witness a new generation of baby sea turtles
hatch and make their way into the wide ocean.
Before the babies arrive, gunshots ring out in the night.
Cassidy Jones, the local Casanova, is found dead in the sand
with his lover Jody Dalton—the same woman who has vowed to
destroy the Chocolate Box—holding the gun. It’s an obvious
crime of passion, or so everyone believes. But when Jody’s
young son pleads with Penn to bring his mother back to him,
she can’t say no. She dives headfirst into a chocolate swirl
of truth and lies, and must pick through an assortment of
likely (and sometimes unsavory) suspects before it’s too
late for Penn and for those she loves in Dorothy St. James’s
third rich installment of the Southern Chocolate Shop
mysteries, In Cold Chocolate.
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