
She gets some help from Fred, her enigmatic neighbor, to help her solve this mystery. Is there pirate treasure, plans to bring the railroad through, or oil under the basement? Another break-in happens and makes her cat, King Henry, launch into full on attack mode and he is able to take a few chunks out of the intruder. Her soon to be ex husband offers to sign the divorce papers, but she has to give him that small and old house in exchange for his new and larger house. Someone breaks into her house, and they try to dig up her basement. Rodney Bradford enters Lindsay’s restaurant and offers to buy her tiny house for twice its worth, eats some of her brownies, and dies on the sidewalk out front. “Murder, Lies, and Chocolate” is the second novel in the “Death by Chocolate” series, which was released in the year 2012. It all makes for a fun and fast paced book. Lindsay needs more than a fix of chocolate to get through this chaos alive.īerneathy has created a sassy and likable protagonist, vivid descriptions, an engaging plot, and some captivating secondary characters in this one. In spite of Fred’s mundane existence, he has pieces of knowledge about certain things such as guns, hidden microphones, and what the inside of maximum security prisons look like. Lindsay is determined to help Paula out and to save her own skin, she asks another of her neighbors, Fred (an OCD computer nerd) to help out. Secrets have come to light from her past that put lives in jeopardy. Paula (Lindsay’s best friend and co-worker who dyes her blond hair, brown) hides from everyone and insists she have an emergency exit from each and every room. Quickly Lindsay finds herself fighting poisoned chocolate, a psycho stalker, and a dead guy that does not seem to be very dead. The only secret Lindsay Powell has is the recipe for her chocolate chip cookies, but her neighbors have some deadly secrets.

“Death by Chocolate” is the first novel in the “Death by Chocolate” series, which was released in the year 2011. The series began publication in the year 2011, when “Death by Chocolate” was released. The marriage finally ends, but only after Rick dies when his car explodes in his driveway. Lindsay tries to divorce Rick, her husband, but Rick does his best in the early part of the series to drag things out.

Helping Lindsay on her cases is her neighbor, Fred, who is her reluctant partner.

Death by Chocolate series by Sally BerneathyĪuthor Sally Berneathy writes the “Death by Chocolate” series that stars Lindsay Powell, who is an amateur sleuth and the owner of a chocolate shop called Death by Chocolate.
