Obsession, Deceit, and Really Dark Chocolate

By: Kyra Davis

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

Sophie Katz's relationship with the irresistible and occasionally insufferable P.I. Anatoly Darinsky is on the fritz when a friend recruits Sophie's investigation skills to decode her possibly two-timing husband's strange behavior. When Sophie shows up in a short, red cocktail dress and her friend's hubby winds up dead, the loveable would-be sleuth can't help but take on the job.

Suddenly plunged into a crazy world of campaign mudslinging, dirt-digging, and cover-ups, Sophie begins to uncover some pretty dirty secrets indeed, involving a conservative congressional hopeful's involvement in the Furry community, a group of people who dress up in mascot-size stuffed animal costumes. Sex and politics, wouldn't you know?

Way in over her head as usual, Sophie reluctantly, or not-so-reluctantly, enlists the help of her two-time sidekick and ex, Anatoly. Together they set out to determine who killed Eugene and why, and in the process can't resist falling for each other...again?

Solve another case with Sophie.

©2007 Kyra Davis (P)2007 Audible, Inc.
All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. This edition is published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A. All characters in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Critic reviews

"One of Cosmopolitan's 'Sizzling Page-turners'." ( Cosmopolitan Magazine)

Just Ok

Obsession, Deceit, and Really Dark Chocolate follows Sophie and her on again off again and maybe on again boyfriend Anatoly as they try to find out who murdered her old professor/friend’s husband. They get plunged into the world of politics and animal costumes. I enjoyed this book but it did not blow me over, to me it was just ok. The narrator was pretty good and the storyline ok but it seemed to drag in places and I found myself ready for it to end to move on to another book. The only time the narrator really annoyed me was at the beginning of each chapter when she was reading an excerpt from Sophie’s book and it seems like she did it in an odd voice especially when she said the name of the book each time. I gave this book 3 stars because the story line was pretty good, the narrator good, and I will be reading the next book in the series but it just did not grab me like the first two did.

Action and humor

A fun listen! Lots of action and humor. I've enjoyed the series many times over.

Suitable mind candy

Kyra Davis's books are a good way to spend some time if you want to escape and get an occasional laugh. Her books are all pretty much the same, but not bad if you are overworked or stressed for a quick escape.

Great Series!

Had me hooked from the first book. So glad I found these books!!

Furries and Really Dark Chocolate!

This was a fun story. I usually don't like to bring politics into my easy listening pleasure time, but I loved the twists of this story and it made the political angle amusing on both sides.

Loved it start to finish! Totally entertaining!

Narrator is tops! Storyline great not too steamy just enough to be titillating with out being vulgar!

Wow, not as good as the previous books.

I found this installment slow and it didn’t hold my interest. Worse yet it was very judgmental. I just did not like this one and am now on the fence as to whether I will read more.

Great title, awful book

What a waste of time and money. At first I thought it was just that the narrator sounded like a cross between a bored phone sex worker and an upper class socialite but as the book progressed the story did not. It was just plain (and painfully) stupid. I figured out who the bad guy was the moment his character was introduced. Then kept listening because I thought there was no way it could be that simple, there was 3/4 of the book left, he must be a red herring. But no, it is the title that is a red herring.

not as good as the last ones

I got tired of all the political republican, democrat jabs in this book. As with Hollywood, leave the politics out and just entertain us.

Couldn’t Get past the first 20 minutes.

I had enjoyed a couple of other books by Kyra Davis. However, her blatant, highly false, mean spirited, Hollywood view of Christians was very difficult to take. She described Christians as hating everyone from single mothers to “queers”. Don’t read this book if you’re Christian or have anybody in your life that is a Christian.