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    Heavenly Pleasures
    Heavenly Pleasures
    Heavenly Pleasures
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    Heavenly Pleasures

    By Kerry Greenwood

    3.5/5

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    "Lose all thought of New Year's diets, you who enter Australian author Greenwood's delectable second Corinna Chapman cozy." —Publishers Weekly STARRED review

    Corinna Chapman wakes at four every morning to make bread. She's happy with her life. The residents of her little Melbourne community finally caught the rotten man sending those "scarlet woman" letters. The former addict she rescued from her alleyway, Jason, is shaping into a good apprentice. And her beautiful Israeli lover, Daniel, who has been away for the last couple of weeks, is as enchanting as ever.

    Corinna has no intention of doing any more investigative work...until she bites into what should have been a lovely violet cream gourmet chocolate and instead chomps a chili-filled catastrophe.

    Could someone want Heavenly Pleasures, her friends' chocolate shop, to fail? Is this tasteless tampering part of an elaborate and horrible joke? Or is it a warning that worse is to come?

    Then Daniel returns bruised and battered from a run-in with a so-called messiah. Could the assailant be involved in the chocolate crime as well? And who is the mysterious man who has moved into the upper apartment?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 31, 2012
    ISBN9781615953738
    Heavenly Pleasures
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    Kerry Greenwood

    Kerry Greenwood was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and after wandering far and wide, she returned to live there. She has degrees in English and Law from Melbourne University and was admitted to the legal profession on the 1st April 1982, a day which she finds both soothing and significant. Kerry has written three series, a number of plays, including The Troubadours with Stephen D’Arcy, is an award-winning children’s writer and has edited and contributed to several anthologies. The Phryne Fisher series (pronounced Fry-knee, to rhyme with briny) began in 1989 with Cocaine Blues which was a great success. Kerry has written twenty books in this series with no sign yet of Miss Fisher hanging up her pearl-handled pistol. Kerry says that as long as people want to read them, she can keep writing them. In 2003 Kerry won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Association.

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    • 2/5
      I started reading this, and then realized it was the second book in the series. The first 15 pages were intriguing enough that I went and found the first book, in audiobook format, and listened to it before continuing.

      I liked the first book, but somehow when I returned to this book, it didn't work for me. Maybe one quirky Australian mystery novel about a baker is my yearly quotient? I don't know, but I gave up on it about 35 pages in.
    • 5/5
      situational-humor, verbal-humor, family-dynamics, cats, law-enforcement, romantic, Australia ***** A deliciously busy book with an eccentric cast of characters and some frightening ones as well. There are mysterious new residents in the building, problems in the chocolate shop, a missing girl, a suspected bomb, major fraud, a chess game, and death threats. All that in addition to Senior Constable Lepidoptera White, Sister Mary, The Mouse Police, a rescue right out of Sir Walter Scott, and some really dim hired goons. Then there's all the humor. Of course I loved it! The incredible voice actress narrating this wonder is Louise Siverson!
    • 4/5
      Synopsis: Although things are going quite well at the bakery, at the chocolate shop down the street someone is adding nasty flavorings to the chocolates. There are also two new residents in the apartments: one is a classy lady and the other is a mystery man. Jason is almost killed, the mystery man is threatened, and kittens are running amok.Review: This was fun to read and the story was interesting. I need to make some muffins.
    • 4/5
      A fun, easy to read novel with a good mix of romance, mystery and food.
    • 2/5
      Pretty much exactly the same book as Earthly Delights which is, of course, what you want from cosy detective fiction. So in that, it doesn't disappoint.
    • 1/5
      Gag! As smart and witty as the Phryne Fisher series is, this was the opposite, saccharine and trite.
    • 3/5
      I only read the first of this series a month or so ago and loved it. I didn't have quite the same reaction to this one, although I liked it a lot. Perhaps it would have been better to wait longer and give myself a chance to miss the characters.

      Anyway, the writing is still great quality, the humour that I enjoyed from the first book is still very firmly evident and the cast of characters are an enjoyable bunch of people to spend a few hours with. In summary a light, well-written escape from reality.
    • 1/5
      Although I read another series by this author and liked it immensely I found I did not like this book. References to Buffy, vampires and witches are not for me so I read the first few chapters then put it down. Will not try this series again.
    • 4/5
      This book was better than the first one, possibly because the plots were calmed down a bit. Three main plots - someone spiking expensive chocolates, a mysterious man being target by some toughs, a 'messiah' causing problems in the local remand centre. Same problems as the first - more Buffy references, more bad baking, more screwing with the Greeks and Romans. There was also a bit of discussion about finance which I don't think was written as well as it could have beenBut, all in all, an improvement. I was looking forward to the third book

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