In Cold Chocolate

Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery Series, Book 3

By: Dorothy St. James

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

The vintage seaside town of Camellia Beach, South Carolina, seems like the perfect place for romance with its quiet beach and its decadent chocolate shop that serves the world's richest dark chocolates. The Chocolate Box's owner, Charity Penn, falls even further under the island's moonlit spell as she joins Althea Bays and the rest of the turtle watch team to witness a new generation of baby sea turtles hatch and make their way into the wide ocean.

Before the babies arrive, gunshots ring out in the night. Cassidy Jones, the local Casanova, is found dead in the sand with his lover Jody Dalton - the same woman who has vowed to destroy the Chocolate Box - holding the gun. It's an obvious crime of passion, or so everyone believes. But when Jody's young son pleads with Penn to bring his mother back to him, she can't say no. She dives headfirst into a chocolate swirl of truth and lies, and must pick through an assortment of likely (and sometimes unsavory) suspects before it's too late for Penn and for those she loves.

©2018 Dorothy McFalls (P)2018 Tantor

Cozy mystery

All the elements of a cozy mystery, a small town, amateur detective, who stumbles on dead bodies and solves the crime with an obligatory pet. I enjoyed all 3 stories. I was disappointed that the question running through all 3 books about who Pens mother was basically left unanswered at the end of the series. Narration was wonderful. Mysteries are well crafted. I just wish it had answered more questions in the ending

struggled to finish

There is too little resolution in the series. Each mystery is both predictable and rife with the samo samo exaperations . This is unfortunate as the setting and characters are good.