A Bittersweet Death, (Paperback)

<p>A chocolate shop. A dead critic. A village with secrets it hasn't finished keeping.</p><p>When Hazel Quinn trades her high-powered legal career for a chocolate shop in the quiet New England village of Maplecroft, she expects her biggest challenge to be perfecting her ganache ratios. She doesn't expect a celebrated literary critic to collapse on her herringbone floor on the opening night of her first tasting event.</p><p>Desmond Fray was difficult, brilliant, and apparently not without enemies. With her shop sealed as a crime scene and her reputation hanging in the balance, Hazel does what any former corporate lawyer instinctively does: she starts building a case.</p><p>What she uncovers reaches back decades - a destroyed restaurant, a buried review, a manuscript that someone was desperate to silence - and points toward a killer hiding in plain sight behind a carefully constructed alibi and an even more carefully constructed grief.</p><p>With her methodical mind, her chocolatier's attention to detail, and the reluctant help of a straight-talking local baker, a sharp young journalist, and a sheriff who is simultaneously exasperated and impressed, Hazel must untangle a web of professional betrayal and long-held secrets before the wrong person takes the blame.</p><p>A Bittersweet Death is a warm, witty, and precisely plotted cozy mystery for readers who like their chocolate dark, their villages atmospheric, and their heroines formidably intelligent.</p><p> </p>

• A Bittersweet Death, (Paperback)
• Author: Clara Willow
• ISBN: 9798235862036
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-22
• Page Count: 138