From the national 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 in which 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" chocolat" "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. He says he s in Warner Pier only to see Bogart on the big screen. Honest.
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....
Includes Tasty Chocolate Trivia "