Mystery

Death by Chocolate

(Mystery, humor, chocolate recipes)

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 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.

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Murder, Lies and Chocolate

(Mystery, humor, chocolate recipes)

Rodney Bradford comes into Lindsay's restaurant, offers to buy her small house for double its value, eats her brownies, and drops dead on the sidewalk in front. Then someone breaks into her house and tries to dig up her basement. Next her almost-ex-husband offers to sign the divorce papers, but only if she'll give him her small, old house and take his big, new house instead.

Suddenly everybody wants Lindsay's house. Is there oil under the basement, plans to bring the railroad through, pirate treasure buried in the basement? A second break-in occurs and causes her cat, King Henry, to launch into full attack mode, taking a few chunks out of the intruder.

Lindsay enlists the aid of her enigmatic neighbor, Fred, to help solve the mystery while trying to keep her police detective boyfriend, Trent, from getting in their way with his insistence on all those silly cop rules.

On the positive side, sales skyrocket for the special dessert Lindsay calls Murdered Man's Brownies. Prisoners, murderers, crazy relatives and strippers are all part of the chaos in this second book of the Death by Chocolate series.

BONUS! Chocolate recipes at the end of the book. Poison optional.

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The Great Chocolate Scam

(Mystery, humor, chocolate recipes)

Rick's car blows up in his driveway. Lindsay is left with an image of Rick's green SUV flying around the neighborhood along with pieces of Rick's blue contact lens in Mrs. Hawkins' driveway, a perfectly creased trouser leg hanging on the street sign, a vertebra on the immaculate lawn.

Since their divorce wasn't final and Rick has no family, Lindsay assumes she is his only heir. Then Bryan Kollar, local celebrity bodybuilder and owner of the chain of gyms, Body by Bryan, comes into Death by Chocolate and asks to buy back the flour mill built by his great-grandfather and purchased by Rick before his death. Lindsay readily agrees that, as soon as she gets title, she'll return it to him.

But before his estate is settled, Rick has more relatives than a lottery winner.

What was Rick planning to do with the old flour mill? Why does Bryan want it back? He doesn't even eat refined flour!

Is the obnoxious Rickie, Jr., really Rick's son? Why is the woman who claims to be Rick's mother so certain the child is not her grandson? Are these people really related to Rick, or was he actually an alien stranded on earth when the mother ship left without him?

Come for the Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars, stay for the murder, mayhem and fun!

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Chocolate Mousse Attack

(Mystery, humor, chocolate recipes)

A phone call at two a.m. is never good news. But there's bad news and then there's strange news. Lindsay's two a.m. call is a plea for help. There's a woman in Fred's closet and he can't get her out.

Their new neighbor, Sophie Fleming, has taken up sleepwalking, straight into Fred's house and his bedroom closet. She's having nightmares about the brutal stabbing of a little girl named Carolyn. But Carolyn was her imaginary childhood friend.

Lindsay, Fred, Trent, Paula and Henry must solve a twenty-year old murder with no bodies, no DNA and no proof the victims ever existed.
How can someone who never lived be murdered? Why is Sophie seeing it happen in Fred's bedroom? Why is she hiding in his closet? Will his clothes even fit her?

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Fatal Chocolate Obsession

(Mystery, humor, chocolate recipes)

A bouquet of roses, a bottle of wine, a crystal butterfly...and a dead man in the alley behind Death by Chocolate. Gifts for Lindsay, left in the middle of the night.

Is her ex-husband Rick between girlfriends and pursuing her again? Did he leave the roses and wine? He has done the out-of-season Santa Claus thing before. But when the crystal butterfly appears, Rick is in the hospital after a brutal attack leaves him near death.

If not Rick, then who? Is it someone she sees every day? The tall man who refuses to look her in the eye? The short man who looks her in the eye too long? The skinny man with crossed eyes who might or might not be looking her in the eye?

As the body count rises, Lindsay begins to see danger everywhere. Lindsay, Fred and Trent must catch this psycho stalker before someone else dies. Not bad enough he kills people. He also murders the English language in the horrible poems he leaves for her.

    Butterflies are free and so are we.
    Come fly away with me for all eternity.
    I'll shelter you from harm,
    and always keep you safe and warm.
    Anyone who troubles thee
    will feel the wrath of me.

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Deadly Chocolate Addiction

(Mystery, humor, chocolate recipes)

A chocoholic comes to Death by Chocolate, eats Lindsay's desserts and intimidates her ex, Rickhead. The mysterious man is her new best friend. She gives him a complimentary box of desserts.

After he's gone, she finds a small brass key under his plate. Surely he'll return for more chocolate and the key. But he's murdered, and the Death by Chocolate box leads police to Lindsay.

Is his death connected to the blonde in four-inch heels who demands to talk to Lindsay about her relationship with the woman's husband?

Who is her husband? Fred? For all Lindsay knows, he could be married, could be a bigamist or even a trigamist. He is an over-achiever.

Lindsay's life is spinning out of control with lots of questions and no answers.

Is the key a clue to the murder? What does it hide that makes it important enough for someone to kill Lindsay to get it?

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Triple Chocolate Murder

(Mystery, humor, chocolate recipes)

BOOK 1: DEATH BY CHOCOLATE
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 isn't very dead and a psycho stalker.

Lindsay needs more than a chocolate fix to survive all this chaos.

BOOK 2: MURDER, LIES AND CHOCOLATE
Rodney Bradford comes into Lindsay's restaurant, eats her brownies, and drops dead on her sidewalk.

 
On the positive side, sales skyrocket for the special dessert Lindsay calls Murdered Man's Brownies.

BOOK 3: GREAT CHOCOLATE SCAM
When Rick's SUV is blown up in his driveway, Lindsay appears to be his only heir. But before his estate is settled, poor orphan Rick has more relatives than a lottery winner.

Are these people really related to Rick, or was he actually an alien stranded on earth when the mother ship left without him?

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Guns, Wives & Chocolate

(Mystery, humor, chocolate recipes)

Lindsay hosts a welcome home party for a drug dealer's release from prison. What could possibly go wrong?

Soon Lindsay's back yard is filled with felons, loud music, and smoke from various kinds of cigarettes.

Lindsay's ex's ex, Grace, arrives with her young son and her new husband, Chuck. They are moving in across the street. Lindsay would prefer to have a serial killer living across the street!

Chuck is murdered.

Then his other wife calls.

Wait...what? His other wife?

Can things get worse?

Yes.

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Spies,  Lies and Chocolate Pies

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Fred's wife found dead. Skewered to tree with an arrow.

Fred has a wife?

Not anymore

Two days after Lindsay happens upon that body, her ex, Rick, goes missing. His grilfriend du jour, Grace, thinks it's foul play. Lindsay thinks he's simply being the slimeball he's always been. Fred thinks he may have been murdered.

Suddenly Fred declares Linsay's life is in danger, but he won't tell her why. Lindsay declares Fred is being paranoid...until a figure steps out of the darkness and grabs her.

Fred is a man with many secrets.

Those secrets may get Lindsay killed.
 

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The Ex Who Wouldn't Die

Book 1 in the Charley's Ghost Series

The Ex Who Glowed in the Dark

Book 2 in the Charley's Ghost Series

The Ex Who Conned a Psychic

Third book in the Charley's Ghost Series

by USA Today Bestselling Author Sally Berneathy

Amanda is still haunted by her ex-husband, Charley...literally haunted. He's stuck between this life and the next, unable to move on, unable to get more than a couple of hundred feet away from Amanda and unwilling to go even that far. She'd like to take a shower without worrying about him peeking, to have a phone conversation without him listening and commenting, to have a date with the hot Detective Jake Daggett. Jake has asked, but a threesome with Charley doesn't sound like fun.

 Her new friend Teresa, a professional psychic and medium, may be able to help. However, before she moves Charley on to the next life, she needs his help in contacting her own dead husband to find out who murdered him. His ghost isn't talking, and if they can't find his killer, Teresa could go to prison. Amanda would lose not only a friend but also the possibility of getting rid of Charley. The facilities for spiritual progression in prison are limited.

 While Amanda is trying to help Teresa find her husband's murderer, a man from Charley's past shows up with a document signed by Charley giving him possession of Amanda's motorcycle shop and apartment. Surely Ronald Collins doesn't really believe he can get away with that, but after he shoots Amanda's live oak tree and burns her truck, she realizes the man is serious...and psychotic.

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The Ex Who Saw a Ghost

Fourth book in the Charley's Ghost Series

by USA Today Bestselling Author Sally Berneathy

Five bodies in a well. 

One of them is the brother of a police detective.

That man's ghost is Charley's new best friend.

But the new ghost isn't leaving. He has an agenda, and it doesn't involve finding his killer. Amanda, Charley, Jake, the medium Teresa, and the ghost's brother Ross must hunt down his murderer before one of them is killed.

Charley's not worried, but the others don't have his immunity to death.

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The Ex Who Hid a Deadly Past

Fifth book in the Charley's Ghost Series

by USA Today Bestselling Author Sally Berneathy

When a deadbeat customer becomes obnoxious in Amanda's motorcycle shop, she grabs a hammer and threatens to bash his head in so far he will be able to see his dirty underwear.

Three weeks later the deadbeat is found murdered in her parking lot.

Customers from the bar down the street report that Amanda left with him the night of the murder. Strands of Amanda's red hair are found on the victim.

The deadbeat's ghost accuses her of murdering him. Charley cannot...or will not...provide an alibi.

The situation goes downhill from there.

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