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Death by Chocolate

by Sally Berneathy · 2011

Lindsay Powell's only secret is the recipe for her chocolate chip cookies, but she is surrounded by neighbors with deadly secrets. Suddenly Lindsay finds herself battling poisoned chocolate, a dead man who doesn't seem very… more

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Working with somebody all day will either make you best friends or worst enemies.
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Well, there are some of us who believe in justice instead of legal technicalities.
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I don’t love him the way I love chocolate and Coke.
If scientists could just figure out the chemical make-up of cats, Prozac would be out of business. Of course, we might all be chasing mice and coughing up fur balls, but I suppose nothing is without side effects.
Men! God only put them on earth so pharmaceutical companies would have a market for Prozac and Valium.
What an interesting coincidence that the first three letters of convince are con.
He believed politeness shouldn’t involve doing anything he didn’t want to do, so when he asked me over, I knew he really wanted to see me.
Of course, bad and illegal are not necessarily synonymous.
Green or white. Clover’s pretty and smells good. And yellow dandelions are nice for contrast. Okay, the truth is, if a rock wants to sit in my yard and not even think about growing, that’s okay too. I kicked a puffy dandelion, sending the seeds scattering, and took a deep breath of the
His were hazel, like trees in the early spring when they’re ready to explode with leaves and even though they’re still winter-brown, you can see a green shimmer.
Now I tell everybody my recipes are “secret” because I have no idea what I do to make them different.
The wound was raw, open and bleeding.
I needed some caffeine and sugar pumping through my veins before I could deal with his inevitable leaving again. Every time was like another knife straight to the gut.
The air was still warm though it had a nostalgic feel to it, as if remembering all the fun of the summer slowly fading into the past and dreading the cold winter on its way.

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Lindsay Powell's only secret is the recipe for her chocolate chip cookies, but she is surrounded by neighbors with deadly secrets. Suddenly Lindsay finds herself battling poisoned chocolate, a dead man who doesn't seem very dead and a psycho stalker. Her best friend and co-worker, Paula, dyes her blond hair brown, hides from everybody and insists on always having an emergency exit from any room. Secrets from Paula's past have come back to put lives in jeopardy. Determined to help Paula and to save her own life, Lindsay enlists the reluctant aid of another neighbor, Fred, an OCD computer nerd. In spite of his mundane existence, Fred possesses tidbits of knowledge about such things as hidden microphones, guns and the inside of maximum security prisons. Lindsay needs more than a chocolate fix to survive all this chaos. Lindsay Powell's only secret is the recipe for her chocolate chip cookie

Book details

First published
2011
Genre
Mystery
Goodreads rating
4.22 (6k ratings)

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