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Forbidden Fruit
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Greenwood, Kerry
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Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 5.
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Sourcebooks 2011
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"Like Corinna's earlier adventures, this episode is cleverly written and chock full of charming characters, interesting puzzles and luscious descriptions of food with appended recipes." —Kirkus Reviews

Corinna Chapman, owner of the bakery Earthly Delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia, where Christmas is a summer festival. Corinna is a perfect size 20 with a genius for baking bread. And while dreaming of air-conditioned comfort, she finds herself dealing with a rose-addicted donkey named Serena, a maniacal mother with staring eyes, a distracted assistant seeking the definitive glacé cherry recipe, her friend the fearless witch Meroe, and the luscious Daniel with whom she would like to spend a lot more time.

But Daniel is on the track of two runaways, Brigid and Manny. Their Romeo-and-Juliet romance is not as straightforward as it seems, and the pair will go a long way to avoid being found. With the help of a troupe of free-spirited "freegans," three very clever internet hackers, and a bunch of singing vegans, Corinna and Daniel go head-to-head with a sinister religious cult on a mission and a band of Romanies out for revenge in a wild and wonderful chase against the clock.

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Kerry Greenwood. (2011). Forbidden Fruit. Sourcebooks.

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But Daniel is on the track of two runaways, Brigid and Manny. Their Romeo-and-Juliet romance is not as straightforward as it seems, and the pair will go a long way to avoid being found. With the help of a troupe of free-spirited "freegans," three very clever internet hackers, and a bunch of singing vegans, Corinna and Daniel go head-to-head with a sinister religious cult on a mission and a band of Romanies out for revenge in a wild and wonderful chase against the clock.

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        Earthly Delights is the bakery where Corinna Chapman, a perfect size 20, turns out wonderful bread and where her assistant Jason is the wizard of muffins. The latest assignment for Corinna's private-eye lover Daniel is to locate Brigid, the pregnant daughter of a wealthy couple. The religious convictions of Brigid's mother made her life and her sister's tightly circumscribed until Brigid ran off with Manny, one of the family gardeners. Though Corinna is not fond of either Christmas or the scorching Melbourne summer, there's no lack of diversions this time. She and several of her friends in Insala, the Roman-style apartment house they call home, get sucked into the adventures of some singing vegans temporarily staying in Insala, a troupe of freegans who are a big help in Daniel's search, and Serena, a rosewater muffin-loving donkey whose owner thinks Corinna's friend Meroe is a black witch. Following some wild chases through the streets in search of the missing pair, Corinna, Daniel and company must solve an unpleasant puzzle before anyone can have a happy holiday.

        Like Corinna's earlier adventures (Trick or Treat, 2009, etc.), this episode is cleverly written and chock full of charming characters, interesting puzzles and luscious descriptions of food with appended recipes.

        (COPYRIGHT (2010) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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        Those who care more for food than crime-solving will best appreciate Australian author Greenwood’s fifth comic mystery featuring Melbourne baker Corinna Chapman (after 2009’s Trick or Treat). Corinna remains ecstatically involved with her lover, PI Daniel Cohen, who winds up on the trail of two 16-year-old runaways, Brigid O’Ryan and Manny Lake, though Brigid and Manny’s respective parents disagree whether the pair went off together. Greenwood throws some militant vegans and freegans as well as a donkey with a taste for rosewater-infused muffins into the plot, but the pieces fail to coalesce as they do in her superior Phryne Fisher series (Cocaine Blues, etc.), in which she deftly balances humor and suspense. In this series, setups are more farcical than funny, and some may grow weary of Corinna’s frequent editorializing about one food item or another she’s just eaten.

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