Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake

A Death by Chocolate Mystery, Book 5

De: Sarah Graves

Narrado por: Susan Boyce

Jake and Ellie are taking a break from perfecting their chocolate-pizza recipe to cater a housewarming party hosted by movie-icon Ingrid Merryfield. Miss Merryfield is famous for her old-Hollywood glamour. Her new home, Cliff House, has a reputation too - for being haunted. But she isn’t concerned, and some of her guests even try to summon a spirit during the party, using a Ouija board. What arrives instead is a freak autumn storm that downs an ancient tree, traps everyone on the property, and leads them to stumble upon a hidden room - where they find film critic Audrey Dalton, apparently frightened to death.

Though Jake and Ellie don’t intend to get stirred into the mix, there’s no avoiding it - especially when they discover a locket in the victim’s hand, with a picture of Ellie and the word “next” on it. Is someone trying to write her out of the script too?

Jake and Ellie begin sifting through suspects and motives, a search that takes them from a long-lost family graveyard to an antique smokehouse and finally to Cliff House’s overgrown gardens. Is there some ghostly presence involved - or a flesh-and-blood villain? And either way, can they ensure that Ellie avoids meeting her very own, very permanent Hollywood ending?

©2022 Sarah Graves (P)2022 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Surprisingly Terrible

I’ve listened to almost every book in this series and enjoyed each. This one was repetitive, lacked originality, no clear purpose, it was sad. I painfully listened to the very end. Huge disappointment.

Action scenes are intense!

For a cozy mystery series, these books have very intense action scenes. And just when they are dealing with one problem, another one pops up! It always seems as if there is no way out, but I reassure myself that of course there is. Sometimes I speed up the narration through these parts just to avoid the anxiety inducing details! LOL
I do recommend the books, however. They are enjoyable and have well developed characters and interesting plots.

My favorite so far

Engaging. Kept me thinking all the way through it. I related to some aspects that I won’t mention because of not wanting to release spoilers.

Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake

I really enjoy her writing but I felt there was too much minutiae in this storyline.

Good listen

The story over all was good but I get tired of all the massively ridiculous situations they get themselves in and out of. 🙄