Asking for Truffle: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery
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Dorothy St. James. (2017). Asking for Truffle: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS.

Dorothy St. James. 2017. Asking for Truffle: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS.

Dorothy St. James, Asking for Truffle: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS, 2017.

Dorothy St. James. Asking for Truffle: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS, 2017.

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   • bioText: Dorothy St. James is the author of the White House Gardener mystery series. 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 first Southern Chocolate Shop mystery.
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A sleuthing chocolatier is the only thing standing between an eccentric seaside town and the deadly plot to destroy it in this cozy culinary mystery for fans of Joanne Fluke
When Charity Penn receives a letter saying she won a trip to Camellia Beach, South Carolina complete with free cooking lessons at the town’s seaside chocolate shop, The Chocolate Box, she’s immediately skeptical. She never entered any contest. Her former prep school friend offers to look into the phony prize—only to end up drowned in a vat of chocolate.
Struck with guilt, Penn heads to the southern beach town to investigate why he was killed. But as wary as she is of the locals, she finds herself lured into their eccentric vibe, letting her defenses melt away and even learning the art of crafting delicious chocolates. That is, until delight turns bittersweet as she steps straight into the midst of a deadly plot to destroy the seaside town. Now, only Penn’s quick thinking and a mysterious cask of rare chocolate can save the town she’s learning to love.
Rich and decadent, Asking for Truffle, the first in a new cozy series by Dorothy St. James, is sure to be a delectable read 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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     July 31, 2017
     Don’t dare call moody un-foodie chocoholic Charity Penn, the heroine of this overly busy but compulsively readable series launch from St. James (Oak and Dagger and two other White House Gardener mysteries), anything but Penn. “Charity” was chosen by her rich, icy grandmother Cristobel Penn, reluctant custodian of a college-age son’s unplanned baby. Cut to blustery Madison, Wis., where Penn has won cooking lessons at a Camellia Beach, S.C., chocolate shop in a contest she never entered. Since Penn’s hacker-surfer pal Craig “Skinny” McGee happens to be headed to a surfing event an hour’s drive from Camellia Beach, he agrees to investigate the mysterious contest. Soon after arriving in South Carolina, Skinny drowns in a chocolate vat—in the shop where Charity “won” lessons. When the local police say that they found drugs in his jeans, Penn snaps and heads to Camellia. Will she solve the murder? Learn her unknown mother’s identity? It’s a circus with too many rings, but readers will cheer Penn every step of the way. Agent: Jill Marsal, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.

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     July 15, 2017
     A woman who's never been properly loved has a chance for a new start in life.Charity Penn is the illegitimate daughter of the much-married scion of a wealthy family. She's never lacked for subsistence funding, but except for one half sister and Granny Mae, her relatives usually ignore her. When Penn gets a card telling her she's won a trip to Camellia Beach, South Carolina, along with free cooking lessons at the local chocolate shop, she's wary--who wins a prize for a contest she hasn't entered?--and asks her prep school friend Skinny, who's traveling to a surfing competition nearby, to check it out. Soon Penn gets a voicemail from Skinny telling her he's found exciting information and inviting her to come down. Before she can decide what to do, she learns that Skinny's been found dead in a vat of chocolate. Packing up her feisty papillon, Stella, Penn heads south. The police insist Skinny was killed in a drug deal gone wrong, but Penn knows Skinny didn't do drugs. Arriving in Camellia Beach, she meets Althea, the daughter of Bertie Bays, companion and helper to Miss Mabel, the chocolate shop owner who wants to teach her to make chocolate. Penn is quickly swept up in the tug of war between those who want to keep the natural beauty of the sleepy town and those who want to make a buck modernizing it. Even families are divided, as Penn learns when she meets two attorneys, Calhoun Dalton, a member of the tear-down group, and his brother, Harley, a defender of the status quo who had a nasty verbal encounter with Skinny the night he died. When Miss Mabel dies suddenly, Penn is shocked to learn she's inherited the chocolate shop--and so are Miss Mabel's relatives. Since South Carolina law will pass the inheritance to the family if Penn dies before five days are up, she has the world's best motive to solve the case. The first in a new series for St. James (Oak and Dagger, 2013, etc.) features an appealingly reflective heroine and a varied roster of suspects.

     COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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A sleuthing chocolatier is the only thing standing between an eccentric seaside town and the deadly plot to destroy it in this cozy culinary mystery for fans of Joanne Fluke
When Charity Penn receives a letter saying she won a trip to Camellia Beach, South Carolina complete with free cooking lessons at the town’s seaside chocolate shop, The Chocolate Box, she’s immediately skeptical. She never entered any contest. Her former prep school friend offers to look into the phony prize—only to end up drowned in a vat of chocolate.
Struck with guilt, Penn heads to the southern beach town to investigate why he was killed. But as wary as she is of the locals, she finds herself lured into their eccentric vibe, letting her defenses melt away and even learning the art of crafting delicious chocolates. That is, until delight turns bittersweet as she steps straight into the midst of a deadly plot to destroy the seaside town. Now, only Penn’s quick...

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