Fudging the Books

The Agatha Award–winning author of Stirring the Plot returns to The Cookbook Nook in Crystal Cove, California, where February brings Pirate Week, National Chocolate Month—and bitter murder …

Pirate Week is sweeping through Crystal Cove and keeping Jenna Hart and her bookstore, The Cookbook Nook, plenty busy. But she’s not too swamped to also host the local Chocolate Cookbook Club’s meeting—especially because the guest of honor is friend, candymaker, and cookbook author Coco Chastain.

Jenna whips up a delicious event amid the rowdy festivities, but the mood is soon broken by robberies, simmering tempers, and a dead body—Coco’s editor, Alison.

The suspects turn out to be more plentiful than a potful of gold doubloons, so to prove Coco isn’t responsible for the dastardly deed, Jenna will have to stir up some clues and figure out who’s the real sticky-fingered killer …