I’m excited to share with you the cover reveal for the next book in the “Bean to Bar” mystery series, coming January 2023 and now up for preorder.

Publication Date: January 17, 2023
Format: Digital
Name of Series: Bean to Bar
Number in Series: #5
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Author Website: amberroyer.com

Book Synopsis
Felicity Koerber’s bean to bar chocolate shop on Galveston’s historic Strand is expanding, as it has become a gathering spot for the community, despite having been the scene of multiple murders. Artists she met while doing a chocolate sculpture are now working out of the shop. So when Felicity is invited to tea by an eccentric art collector, she’s intrigued, especially when she gets asked to pose for a portrait done with chocolate on chocolate. Only, where there is a murder the next day at the same historic house where the tea was held, one of Felicity’s artist friends becomes the main suspect.

When the killer threatens that, unless Felicity unravels the murder, one of her two love interests will be the next victim, she finds herself unwittingly at the center of a puzzle, with a Sherlock Holmes obsessed murderer who wants to be the next Moriarty – and wants to cast Felicity as Sherlock.

Felicity starts finding unexpected connects between her friends and acquaintances, and has to deal with the idea that someone who knows her is a murderer. At the same time, she has to keep her business running, despite construction dust and unruly customers – and an unexpected order for thousands of truffles.

Satchmo the retired police dog turned therapy dog returns to help her sniff out a few clues, and the kidnapping of Ruffles, the quirky artist’s cat, helps lead Felicity into the puzzle. Can Felicity solve it in time to protect the people she cares about from becoming additional victims?

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About the author
Amber Royer writes the CHOCOVERSE comic telenovela-style foodie-inspired space opera series and the Bean To Bar Mysteries. Her writing textbook/workbook Story Like A Journalist is the basis for many of her novel writing classes and workshops. She is also co-author of the cookbook There Are Herbs In My Chocolate, which combines culinary herbs and chocolate in over sweet and savory recipes. Amber had a long-running column for Dave’s Garden, where she covered gardening and crafting. She blogs about creative writing technique and all things chocolate related over at amberroyer.com. She also teaches creative writing in person in North Texas for both UT Arlington Continuing Education and Writing Workshops Dallas. If you are very nice to her, she might make you cupcakes.

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