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Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake

A Death by Chocolate Mystery, Book 5

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Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake

By: Sarah Graves
Narrated by: Susan Boyce
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Jake and Ellie are taking a break from perfecting their chocolate-pizza recipe to cater a housewarming party hosted by movie-icon Ingrid Merryfield. Miss Merryfield is famous for her old-Hollywood glamour. Her new home, Cliff House, has a reputation too - for being haunted. But she isn’t concerned, and some of her guests even try to summon a spirit during the party, using a Ouija board. What arrives instead is a freak autumn storm that downs an ancient tree, traps everyone on the property, and leads them to stumble upon a hidden room - where they find film critic Audrey Dalton, apparently frightened to death.

Though Jake and Ellie don’t intend to get stirred into the mix, there’s no avoiding it - especially when they discover a locket in the victim’s hand, with a picture of Ellie and the word “next” on it. Is someone trying to write her out of the script too?

Jake and Ellie begin sifting through suspects and motives, a search that takes them from a long-lost family graveyard to an antique smokehouse and finally to Cliff House’s overgrown gardens. Is there some ghostly presence involved - or a flesh-and-blood villain? And either way, can they ensure that Ellie avoids meeting her very own, very permanent Hollywood ending?

©2022 Sarah Graves (P)2022 Dreamscape Media, LLC Amateur Sleuths Cozy Culinary Adventures Detective Fiction Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Haunted

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For a cozy mystery series, these books have very intense action scenes. And just when they are dealing with one problem, another one pops up! It always seems as if there is no way out, but I reassure myself that of course there is. Sometimes I speed up the narration through these parts just to avoid the anxiety inducing details! LOL
I do recommend the books, however. They are enjoyable and have well developed characters and interesting plots.

Action scenes are intense!

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The story over all was good but I get tired of all the massively ridiculous situations they get themselves in and out of. 🙄

Good listen

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Yes,it was a bit hard to follow and I found I needed to pay closer attention and reread some parts, like I never quite got what happened to Brian. I may have zoned out during that.
But it is fiction and cozy and a very enjoyable wild ride.

I loved this book and series.

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Babies and dogs and chocolate chip cupcakes and murder! What more could you want? This is by far the best Chocolate Moose mystery yet. Sarah Graves just keeps getting better and better!

Tremendously fun!!!

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Engaging. Kept me thinking all the way through it. I related to some aspects that I won’t mention because of not wanting to release spoilers.

My favorite so far

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I love this series!!!
It was like being on a runaway roller coaster. Please Sarah Graves more soon!!

OMG!!! THE BEST YET!!

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I really love this series, from the start its been great. Hope she writes more. Very well written. Love the narrator. She did a great job.

Loved it!

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(Includes spoilers) Graves “Death by Chocolate” is uncharacteristically confusing, disjointed and reads as if someone else wrote it. Make no mistake - Graves delivers the same purposeful and descriptive language she is known for - it’s just the storyline falls apart beginning at chapter 5 and never recovers. How many times does she leave her family with a serial killer…how many times does she say we have to get out of here and then she leaves them behind? And every time she comes back Micah is making food…breakfast, lunch, fondue (everyone is dead who are you cooking for). Then random details - a pizza paddle appears (we brought it…) but why? Someone is pouring coffee….but then oh, wait, there’s no power…so now she’s heating it in a pan. And on and on. Lastly - the book starts with the cookie pizza idea of Ellie’s…next thing you know it’s appearing everywhere (stealing a paper plate of the yummy goodness from the killer!!) except the title. I expect better story structure and continuity from such a seasoned author.

Where are the cupcakes?

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Ring around the deathtrap - and why was the caterers involved? What a wonderful group of twists and turns and suggested wobbles.
I was waiting for one outcome when another possibility popped up. And as soon as you heard one possibility another question popped up.
It felt a lot like Clue - and still I would feel a bit clueless . . . . that is until yet another clue popped up.

Well written and well narrated.

As all the climbing, falling and freezing water came round and round and all the clues we thought we had gathered now flushed away - I kept wondering how long before the house crumbled down the now slippery slope and into the sea - were we really going to lose any main characters into a horrible watery grave?

Read/listen to the end to learn how this story ends.
I Have to get the next book started now!

Who killed who killed

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I’ve listened to all of Sarah Graves’ books and enjoyed the stories but her excessive use of adverbs (e.g., liquidly, clingingly) gets annoying. The narrator did a great job with e everyone’s voices except the main character, Jake. The staccato was like listening to William Shatner’s Captain Kirk. If not for those 2 issues, I’d go 5-star on this one.

Mostly good writing and narration

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