Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake

Written by Sarah Graves

Narrated by Susan Boyce

In a quaint Maine village, Jake and Ellie run the Chocolate Moose, a bakery where delicious treats take the spotlight—but murder sometimes gets a walk-on role…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Mar 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781666534368

Sarah Graves

Sarah Graves lives with her husband in an 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine, where her mystery novels are set. When she is not scraping, painting, glazing, sanding, hammering, or otherwise repairing (or failing to repair!) the old house, she is working on her next cozy mystery.

Reviews for Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake

[Sandy H · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I loved the other books in the series. This one was so far fetched it was laughable. How many times did Jac climb the rockface, get shot at, find a body, take the boat out. It was ridiculous. Very disappointed.

[cyderry · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Jake and Ellie, owners of the Chocolate Moose, are hired to cater an event at the haunted mansion on the cliff which has just been purchased by a celebrity. The owner wants them to spend the night which neither Jake or Ellie wish to do, but Mother Nature pretty much decides for them when gigantic trees fall during a storm knocking out power, communications and a way to escape. Bodies start turning up and Jake and Ellie work to save their friends from becoming the next victims.Great story, action packed! fun and thrills galore!

[maydacat_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Jake and Ellie have been hired to make the desserts for a weekend party for a newly arrived homeowner. The catch is that they have to remain on the premises for the weekend. The bigger catch is that this home is the old house on a cliff, said to haunted, and whose inhabitants all died decades before by murder and suicide. But it means a large cash influx of money which they desperately need. Of course, the party goers are not really friends with each other, a storm comes up unexpectedly, a huge tree falls and blocks the only way out other than by water, and then people start dying. It’s an exciting story, the sort where everyone is forced to be together and no one knows who is really trustworthy. Jake and Ellie and the couple of relatives they got to help are indeed in danger; they just don’t know where or how or by whom it’s coming. The story is definitely a nail-biter towards the end, and the harrowing escapes (yes, more than one!) that Jake and Ellie are forced into making really make the story a page turner. Fifth in the series, these stories continue to be well written and peopled by likable characters placed in a delightful setting.

[lindapanzo · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I love the author's Death by Chocolate series but with so much of the action taking place at a creepy haunted house, this fifth installment in the series was, by far, my least favorite book in the series. It had more of a feeling of an adventure and less of a cozy mystery feel.I did enjoy meeting all the regular characters again and look forward to further books in the series.Incidentally, with all the talk about chocolate pizza in this book, which sounds delicious to me, I wonder why that wasn't the title.(I received a copy of this book from the publisher, via Net Galley, in exchange for a fair and honest review.)

[jetangen4571 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Maine, island-life, situational-humor, family, family-dynamics, friendship, small-business, small-town, baker, storms, tunnel*****An island in Maine just after the tourist season, a not-so-young actress who visits with her bodyguard, a creepy old house with a murderous past, a cast of quirky characters, and a chocolate pizza. It's something of a spoof of ghost mysteries but has a real plot that reeled me in and kept me there to the end even though I had not yet read any of the earlier books in the series. What a hoot!I requested and received a free e-book copy from Kensington Books via NetGalley. Thank you!