Death by Chocolate Raspberry Scone
By (Author) Sarah Graves
Center Point
Center Point
1st December 2024
Large Print Edition
United States
General
Fiction
Hardback
500
Width 146mm, Height 222mm
Summer guests are eager to sink their teeth into the tantalizing desserts Jacobia Jake Tiptree and Ellie White serve at their bakeshop in the island village of Eastport, Maine. But attracting the wrong kind of attention can be deadly . . .
With the August heat strong enough to melt solid chocolate into syrup, Jake and Ellie crave a break from the bakery ovens, despite tourist season promising a sweet payday. But they never envisioned spending the last weeks of summer drifting around Passamaquoddy Bay searching for pirates treasureand a dead body.
Sally Coates believes her husband was murdered off the coast, and begs Ellie, a trusted childhood friend, to locate his remains. Its unusual that a skilled fisherman would vanish along with the gold doubloon he inherited from his grandfather. And Sally isnt the only one coveting the valuable heirloom for her own.
As Jake and Ellies island-hop for answers, they find themselves caught between hungry sharks and hungrier suspects. Can the duo tempt fate and dodge danger before theres blood in the wateror are they destined to fall into the jaws of a killers trap