Fudging the Books (A Cookbook Nook Mystery);

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 her friend, candy maker and cookbook author Coco Chastain.

Jenna whips up a delicious event amidst 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 pot full 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€¦

INCLUDES RECIPES!