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The Cocoa Conspiracy

The Cocoa Conspiracy, December 2011
Lady Arianna Regency Mystery #2
by Andrea Penrose

Signet
336 pages
ISBN: 0451235312
EAN: 9780451235312
Kindle: B005GSZIJ4
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"Lady Arianna will be drawn into an assassination plot that risks everything and everyone she cares for."

Fresh Fiction Review

The Cocoa Conspiracy
Andrea Penrose

Reviewed by Leanne Davis
Posted January 15, 2012

Mystery Cozy

Lady Arianna is just settling into marriage with the Earl of Saybrook. She is accepting of her idiosyncrasies but she hasn't settled in with the ton yet. Arianna has just found the perfect book for Sandro's birthday, but someone attacks her with a knife insisting the book belongs to him. When Lord Mellon, Sandro's uncle asks them to attend a house party to aid with a Spanish delegation, they resign themselves to doing their part. Arianna is stunned to recognize the man who attacked her as part of the Russian delegation attending the party. Sandro is shot at while the men are out hunting. As she sits as his bedside, Arianna discovers some hidden papers in the book she purchased for Sandro. These events will lead them to the investigation of a plot at the Congress in Vienna. Codes and uncertainty will draw them ever deeper into discovering the identity of those who wish to throw Europe back into turmoil. Andrea Penrose has written a fascinating story based around the events that led to the Congress in Vienna. France is trying to recover from the the reign of Napoleon and keep their national identity. Peopled with historical and fictional characters, readers will be held spellbound by the events portrayed in THE COCOA CONSPIRACY. The verbal sparring between Sandro, Baz, and Arianna is a delightful backdrop to the danger that they find themselves in.

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SUMMARY

Lady Arianna's gift of a rare volume of botanical engravings to her husband, the Earl of Saybrook, has something even more rare hidden inside-sensitive government documents which would mark one they hold dear as a traitor of King and country. To unmask the villain, they must root out a cunning conspiracy-armed only with their wits and expertise in chocolate...


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