Criminally Cocoa

An Amish Candy Shop Mystery, Book 1.5

By: Amanda Flower

Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell

A taste for trouble....

As if being in New York City for Easter isn't exciting enough, Charlotte Weaver has another reason to be thrilled. She's helping her cousin Bailey on the set of her first cable TV show, Bailey's Amish Sweets. Bailey will even be recreating the delectable handwoven chocolate Easter baskets she once crafted for the city's world-famous JP Chocolates. But once things start rolling, Charlotte starts to notice odd things happening - things that seem intended to make Bailey look bad....

With Bailey feeling extra nervous about being on camera, Charlotte decides to keep her suspicion of sabotage to herself. But she knows that among Bailey's fans at the Gourmet Television network lurks a dangerously jealous rival. Now, Charlotte will have to find out who that person is - before sour grapes turns one of the sweetest times of the year fatally bitter....

©2019 Amanda Flower (P)2019 Tantor

pretty good little short story

I enjoy most of the books in the series that I have read so far and I enjoyed this one just as much. It was refreshing to hear from the perspective of someone else. The mystery was good and I did not figure it out so I think that means that it was well thought through.

Good but too short

The story like all the series was a fun read and hard to put down, but just as you are pulled in, it was over.

Good but out of order

ALERT: Should be listed as 3.5, definitely later than Lethal Licorice, in which Bailey and Charlotte have just met, and Premeditated Peppermint, which sets up the situation for this story. Precedes Toxic Toffee.

Nice Amish girl on rumspringa tells a story about accompanying chocolatier Bailey King on a trip to New York City to do a tv cooking show. Fun, nice narration.

Reader

Readerkept dropping her g’s.
Lookin’
Mornin’
Bakin’
Evenin’
Somethin’
Very annoying!
Unless that’s how the Amish really speak?!?!

Sweet mystery

Love that the story was told from Charlotte's perspective. Amish girl in New York was handled tastefully not stereotypically.