Amateur sleuth and baker extraordinaire Corinna Chapman is upstaged when the hot new bread chain, Best Fresh Bread, opens just down the street from her own bakery, Earthly Delights. Meanwhile Daniel's tall, blonde and gorgeous old friend is staying with him while she establishes a base and a business in Melbourne. When Daniel starts making excuses, Corinna begins to worry about his absences and also the strange outbreak of madness which seems to be centred on Lonsdale Street. Will Corinna win through a maze of health regulations, missing boyfriends, sinister strangers, fraudulent companies and back alley ambushes? Or will this be the end for the Earthly Delights Bakery?
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“A gathering of witches in Melbourne to celebrate Samhain; a man named Barnabas who calls himself “king of the witches”; a rash of bad drug reactions; a cache of valuables stolen from Greek Jews during WWII; and the appearance of Daniel’s beautiful and svelte former girlfriend, Georgiana Hope, add up to a rich confection that nicely balances humor, villainy and a puzzle.” –Publishers Weekly on Trick or Treat
“Working a case loosely based on a true story, Corinna and her friends are as delightful as ever, the killer a surprise and the appended recipes a treat.” –Kirkus Reviews on Trick or Treat
STARRED REVIEW
“Lose all thought of New Year’s diets, you who enter Australian author Greenwood’s delectable second Corinna Chapman cozy (after 2007’s Earthly Delights).” Publishers Weekly on Heavenly Pleasures
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Kerry Greenwood is the author of more than 20 novels and six non-fiction books. Ms. Greenwood has received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers’ Association of Australia. She is also an advocate in Magistrates’ Courts for the Legal Aid Commission. She is not married, has no children and lives with a registered Wizard.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Delicious fun Down Under . . .,
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This review is from: Trick or Treat: A Corinna Chapman Mystery (Corinna Chapman Mysteries) (Paperback)
Fun and funky characters, witches, food porn, a stolen Nazi treasure horde surfacing unexpectedly - who wouldn't want to be Corinna Chapman? Surrounded by the luscious, adoring Daniel and a coterie of fascinating, interesting and loving friends and neighbors (and cats, lots of cats!), Corinna's back in her fourth outing - this time facing a competing bakery down the lane, a gorgeous, leggy Sloane Ranger possibly moving in on her man, and some wicked new drugs sending people right over the edge (literally). . .The plot summary above touches on the relevant points, and Greenwood rambles a bit here and there, but I read and look forward to new installments in this quirky series for the returning and ever-expanding cast of regulars, their delightful and frequent interactions with lots of good food and each other, and of course, Corinna herself. Delicious! I can't wait for the next installment, I believe set at Christmas time . . .
3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Trick or Treat: A Corinna Chapman Mystery (Corinna Chapman Mysteries) (Paperback)
Corinna seems to have everything she could want in life: her own bakery with steady clients and a handsome, devoted boyfriend, Daniel. However, frightening forces are converging which threaten to take it all away. The frightening forces take the form of a cheap bakery moving in down the street, which although it's baked goods are inferior to Corinna's, cuts into her business and an ex-girlfriend of Daniel's who is staying with him until she can find her own apartment. To make matters worse, someone seems to be passing around baked goods with some kind of drug or poison in them which make people go mad. Even Corinna's bakery becomes suspect and is investigated by the health inspectors. Meanwhile, a group of witches has come to celebrate the pagan festival of Samhain, and one of them has come up with treasures which turn out to be treasures stolen by a Nazi during WWII. Somehow, all of these events are connected, but it's up to Corinna to learn what the connection is.I found the book a bit disjointed. It jumps around a lot between all the different problems that Corinna has to deal with. There is an explanation that connects all the different parts of the story, but it doesn't become clear until the very end. I admit that the solution is pretty original, and the story contains some interesting historical facts. However, I found parts of the story a bit hard to follow, partly because Daniel has some knowledge that he doesn't share until almost the end.
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wonderful treat,
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Rate: five starsIf you have not read Kerry Greenwood's mysteries, do so today, treat yourself well. Wonderful fun -- she will have you reading happily/greedily through all her mysteries -- both Corinna and Phryne Fisher (Greenwood's utterly delightful 1928 heroine) will entrance you. The next Phryne Fisher book will release Nov. 1. Keep writing Ms. Greenwood.
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