From the bestselling author of The Chocolate Clown Corpse its murder my sweet for a chocolatier whose love of old crime films plunges her into a real-life murder where the motives arent so black and whiteThe Warner Pier tourism board is kicking off its Tough Guys and Private Eyes film festival with The Maltese Falcon and Lee Woodyard and her Aunt Nettie are preparing a delicious chocolate noir tie-in at TenHuis Chocolade What Lee isnt prepared for is a face from the past Jeff Godfrey her former stepson The last time Jeff showed up in town he wound up being accused of murder Now he says hes only in Warner Pier to see Bogart on the big screen HonestJeff may now be a college grad but that doesnt mean hes any less nave than the kid Lee had to bail out of trouble earlier There are all those strange phone calls a girlfriend whos secretly on Jeffs tail and a pack of suspicious-sounding acquaintances right out of Dashiell Hammett Then Jeff goes missing the Falcon theme is haunting everyone and a body falls at Lees feet when she opens the front door just like in the movieNow Lee is under deadline to rewrite the ending of a cunning killers increasingly convincing murder plotIncludes Tasty Chocolate Trivia.
