Death by Chocolate Raspberry Scone

A Death by Chocolate Mystery, Book 7

By: Sarah Graves

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

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 pirate’s treasure—and a dead body.

Sally Coates believes her husband was murdered off the coast, and begs Ellie, a trusted childhood friend, to locate his remains. It’s unusual that a skilled fisherman would vanish along with the gold doubloon he inherited from his grandfather. And Sally isn’t the only one coveting the valuable heirloom for her own.

As Jake and Ellie’s island-hop for answers, they find themselves caught between hungry sharks and hungrier suspects. Can the duo tempt fate and dodge danger before there’s blood in the water—or are they destined to fall into the jaws of a killer’s trap?

©2024 Sarah Graves (P)2024 Dreamscape Media

Fun Mystery!!!

I liked the humor, and the characters plus the plot was great!! It held my attention from beginning to end!!

Almost missed a gem

I will admit that I almost gave up on this book before the first hour. A change in narrator is risky business and I thought it was a huge misstep by the powers that be. But lo and behold by the thirty minute mark all the annoying little vocal inflections had developed into a perfectly wonderful narration. This may be my favorite of the series!

Only one problem

I love the characters. I thought the story was very compelling. The only thing that bothered me were all the words ending in LY. In fact, it felt like it was very hard for the narrator, to read all those troublingly words. You see what I did there?
Two women running a business and then pulling all nighters doing detective work was a little bit unrealistic, but it worked OK.
I couldn’t stop listening, so that was a good thing. I would buy another book from this author.😊

Another great mystery in Sarah Graves Death by Chocolate series

The characters and plot will keep the listener intrigued. There are enough twists and turns to keep listener guessing as to how the murder(a) will be solved. However, I was disappointed in the narration. Suzie Althens is a good narrator but not as good as Susan Boyce who narrated previous books. Much of the Maine accent and colloquialisms are not there with Suzie Althens as with Susan Boyce, and they added added to the story when narrated by Susan Boyce.

Great story

Sarah Graves never fails me. Great listen!! Looking forward to the next one. Thank you.