Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781496729224)

In the fifth Death by Chocolate Mystery by Sarah Graves, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and Ellie White, owners of the Chocolate Moose Bakery, are hired to cater a retired film star's party in what's rumored to be Eastport, Maine's most haunted house...

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, trapping everyone on the property and setting the stage for a killer's planned spree.

Though Jake and Ellie don't intend to get stirred into the mix, there's no avoiding it--especially when they witness one of the guests being shoved over the very precipice that gave Cliff House its forbidding name.

Jake and Ellie begin sifting through suspects and motives, a search that takes them from a long-lost family graveyard to a wise old herbalist's deceptively-sweet cottage 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 they avoid meeting their very own, very permanent Hollywood ending?


Author: Sarah Graves
ISBN-10: 1496729226
ISBN-13: 9781496729224
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2022
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.51w x 1.18d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 02/07/2022
Booklist 03/01/2022 pg. 28