I am thrilled to host the cover reveal for the third book in the “Southern Chocolate Shop” mystery series from Crooked Lane Books, coming September 11, 2018.
Title: In Cold Chocolate
Series: Southern Chocolate Shop #3
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Website: Dorothy St. James
In Dorothy St. James’s third delectable Southern Chocolate Shop mystery, a new batch of chocolate and troubles of the heart cause a string of disasters for the Chocolate Box’s new owner, Charity Penn.
The vintage seaside town of Camellia Beach, South Carolina seems like the perfect place for romance with its quiet beach and its decadent chocolate shop that serves the world’s richest dark chocolates. The Chocolate Box’s owner, Charity Penn, falls even further under the island’s moonlit spell as she joins Althea Bays and the rest of the turtle watch team to witness a new generation of baby sea turtles hatch and make their way into the wide ocean.
Before the babies arrive, gunshots ring out in the night. Cassidy Jones, the local Casanova, is found dead in the sand with his lover Jody Dalton—the same woman who has vowed to destroy the Chocolate Box—holding the gun. It’s an obvious crime of passion, or so everyone believes. But when Jody’s young son pleads with Penn to bring his mother back to him, she can’t say no. She dives headfirst into a chocolate swirl of truth and lies, and must pick through an assortment of likely (and sometimes unsavory) suspects before it’s too late for Penn and for those she loves in Dorothy St. James’s third rich installment of the Southern Chocolate Shop mysteries, In Cold Chocolate.
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Giveaway: Leave a comment below for your chance to win a hardcover copy of Asking For Truffle. U.S. entries only, please. The giveaway ends January 24, 2018. Good luck everyone!
About the author
Dorothy St. James is the author of the White House Gardener mysteries. For the past twenty years she made her home on Folly Beach, an artsy island community in South Carolina with her sculptor husband. Dorothy is a member of Mystery Writers of America (MWA) and the International Thriller Writers (ITW). This is her third Southern Chocolate Shop mystery.
All comments are welcomed.
I think this series sounds so good! I love anything with chocolate in the title!
This is a new series and author for me. The book sounds great and I love the cover art.
I really have to try this series. Thanks for the very interesting post.
Haven’t read any books in this series, but Chocolate is my favorite food group so I should give it a try 🙂
What an adorable cover!!!
Thank you for the giveaway….
Love the cover!
I loved her other series and I love chocolate so that means I’ll love this new series also.
Toss my name into the Magic Contest Hat please Dru. “Ya Gotta Be In It To Win It” as they say in the Lottery world.
This series sounds great. I love the cover of this book. It’s so cute!
This sounds like a good series. Can’t eat chocolate, but I can read about it.
I met Dorothy at Malice last year. She was the moderator of a panel that I was monitoring (say those two words quickly 5 times – ha!). Anyway, I enjoyed hearing about the chocolate series and, though I haven’t begun it yet, this cover is so cute, it might send me looking for the first book right away. And I love dark chocolate. Isn’t it nice that it’s ‘supposed’ to be good for you now. 😉
Sounds DELICIOUS! Very interested in starting this series!
Congrats on another great book, Dorothy! Can’t wait to read it!
Love the cover! This book sounds amazing! Thank you for the chance to win it!
This is a new to me series I would love to get hooked on. Thanks for the chance to win this one.
I love dogs and I love chocolate…so naturally I am all in for this new series!
I would love to win this book-thanks Dorothy and Dru Ann for the chance to
try! 🙂 Either way, win or not, I will be reading this series!
I have read the White House Garden series by Ms St James. This sounds like another interesting and fun mystery series. Love the titles and art work. Thanks Dorothy and Dru for the opportunity to get involved in a new to me series.
The dog on the cover is showing my sentiments exactly! Let me at those goodies!
Cute cover! And how can you go wrong with chocolate?? Thanks for the chance to win Asking for Truffle.
Precious cover! Any book with chocolate and a mystery is a book for me ~
This sounds like a great start to a new series. I really enjoyed the description the series. Looking forward to reading the books.
This sounds like a series I would enjoy reading and chocolate is my all time favorite. Reading and all things chocolate are the perfect combination!
The cover is adorable and I’m drooling already. Can’t wait!
A chocolate shop? Count me in! Sounds like a fun series!
What a fabulous cover! I can’t wait to read this one. Thanks for the chance to win a copy
Love the cover!! Sounds like a new series I need to read.
Oh my goodness gracious, LOVE the cover for “In Cold Chocolate”! I love the purple accents, the chocolate and the little pooch is completely adorable with those big as saucer “look what I see’ eyes. Just from the cover, I know that I’d love to read the book.
Thank you for the wonderful chance to win a hardback copy of “Asking For Truffle”.
Sounds like a good book to have.
I love that cover! Definitely makes me want to read it!
I love the cover. I can’t wait to read this series!
Anything that has to do with chocolate sounds great! Thanks for the chance to win!
Great author! Thanks for the chance to win a copy. I love the cover with the little Papillion (sp?) fur baby
**** WINNER ****
Asking for Truffle is Kay Garrett
Congratulations!