Dorothy St. James. (2018). Playing With Bonbon Fire: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS.

Dorothy St. James. 2018. Playing With Bonbon Fire: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS.

Dorothy St. James, Playing With Bonbon Fire: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS, 2018.

Dorothy St. James. Playing With Bonbon Fire: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS, 2018.

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   • bioText: Dorothy St. James is the author of the White House Gardener mysteries. For the past twenty years she made her home on Folly Beach, an artsy island community in South Carolina with her sculptor husband. Dorothy is a member of Mystery Writers of America (MWA) and the International Thriller Writers (ITW). This is her second Southern Chocolate Shop mystery.
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Charity Penn must smoke out a killer to stop her beachside chocolate shop from going up in flames in this “addictive” culinary cozy mystery series “that keeps you up late reading” (San Francisco Book Review)
Chocolate shop owner Charity Penn is finally settling into life in the quirky South Carolina seaside town of Camellia Beach cooking up chocolate treats. She’s even helped organize the town’s lively beach music festival which has brought rollicking crowds eager to dance the Carolina shag. That is, until one of the band’s lead singers is found dead beside a beach bonfire.
While also trying to balance the amorous attention of music star Bixby Lewis, in town for the festival, and her quest to perfect a new hot flavored bonbon, Charity dives into the investigation. Though it’s more spice than sugar when she discovers a threatening note, comes across decades of age-old secrets, and Bixby comes into the line of fire when a gas grill explodes on the deck of a beachfront house.
Now Charity must turn up the heat and catch the killer before her chance melts away in Playing With Bonbon Fire, the delightful second Southern Chocolate Shop mystery served up just right for fans of JoAnna Carl and Joanne Fluke.

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   • source: Bailey Cates, NYT bestselling author of the Magical Bakery mysteries
   • content: "Asking for Truffle is a splendid twist on the cozy, offering a complex heroine, a coastal town full of secrets, and surprises around every corner. A heady delight for chocolate lovers and an enticing beginning to a new mystery series. I look forward to many more installments from St. James and her heroine, Penn."
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   • source: JoAnna Carl, national bestselling author of the Chocoholic mysteries
   • content: "Yum! Wear a bib when you read this one! The chocolate descriptions and the recipes will definitely have you drooling. An interesting heroine and a town filled with quirky characters, plus chocolate--what’s not to like? Dorothy St. James did a super job."
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   • source: Jacklyn Brady, national bestselling author of the Piece of Cake mysteries
   • content: "Asking for Truffle is a story as richly layered as the rare chocolate it features, with interesting and quirky characters readers will love, all wrapped in a lush setting that made me want to stake out a spot in town and stay there. Readers will definitely wish they could visit the Chocolate Box after reading this story."
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   • source: Ellie Alexander, author of the Bakeshop mysteries
   • content: "An intriguing premise that will draw you in and keep you guessing, a spunky protagonist turned reluctant chocolatier, and the perfect blend of exotic chocolate makes St. James’s new series sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. The mystery of Penn’s past looms in this tightly plotted page-turner. Asking for Truffle will leave you hungry for a cup of creamy, rich hot chocolate and wanting to know what’s next for Penn and her new found family."
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     January 22, 2018
     St. James’s so-so sequel to 2017’s Asking for Truffle finds Charity Penn running the Chocolate Box in Camellia Beach, S.C., a store she inherited from her late maternal grandmother, Mabel Maybank, and trying to learn more about her wealthy Maybank relatives. She’s also involved in putting together the inaugural Summer Solstice Beach Music Festival. Headlining the fest is the reunion of local band the Embers, but the star attraction is music great Bixby Lewis. When a burned body is discovered by a beach bonfire, Penn fears it’s Bixby, but the victim turns out to be Stan Frasier, the disaffected former lead singer for the Embers who had a hit with another group in the 1970s. Penn seizes the chance to play amateur sleuth, but she must contend with police chief Hank Byrd, who warns her not to investigate or interfere. Too much is going on in this farrago of a mystery, but cozy fans will still have fun. Agent: Jill Marsal, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.

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     February 1, 2018
     A South Carolina beach-music festival turns into a horror show for a beleaguered businesswoman.After a rough welcome to Camellia Beach (Asking For Truffle, 2017), Charity Penn is slowly adjusting to owning Miss Mabel's famous chocolate shop and acquiring a bunch of relatives who wish she didn't exist. Penn is certain that Carolina, Miss Mabel Maybank's missing daughter, is the mother who dumped her on her horrified father, a wealthy college student, when she was a baby. Penn's trust fund is difficult to access, and only a single relative in the Penn family, her half sister, Tina, loves her--which is one more than she can find among the Maybanks, who are contesting their mother's will, hoping to reclaim the store. Though it all, Penn is learning to make truffles with the help of Bertie, Miss Mabel's friend and assistant. Tina's managed to get famous rock star Bixby Lewis to play at the Summer Solstice Beach Music Festival, which Penn is charged with making a success. Along with his star power, Bixby brings some unfortunate baggage in the form of Candy, a crazed fan who throws a rock through Penn's shop window. Bubba Crowley and Stan Frasier, who both had popular beach bands 40 years ago, almost get into a fistfight, and when Stan ends up dead, Bubba is a likely suspect. More dangerous pranks force Penn to keep her glazier on speed dial. Bertie is acting strangely, and Mabel's middle daughter, Florence, suddenly confesses that she's Penn's mother, an admission Penn can't quite believe. With thousands of Carolina Shag dancers and beach music fans on hand, Penn, despite dire warnings from the police, can't help but put herself in danger investigating a crime whose roots may be deep in the past.The heroine has enough problems to fill several books. But this one has a neat mystery, a touch of romance, and a real feel for the Carolina shagging lifestyle.

     COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Chocolate shop owner Charity Penn is finally settling into life in the quirky South Carolina seaside town of Camellia Beach cooking up chocolate treats. She’s even helped organize the town’s lively beach music festival which has brought rollicking crowds eager to dance the Carolina shag. That is, until one of the band’s lead singers is found dead beside a beach bonfire.
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