Happy Friday everyone! Today’s spotlight is on Bitter Chocolate by Dawn Greenfield Ireland and I must apologize once again to the author for not having a review ready for today. We are getting smoke in our city from the forest fires and our air quality is really bad which is making me really sick and being that I’m having a hard time breathing I’m also having a hard time concentrating. I have however read the first book in the Alcott Family Adventures and enjoyed it a great deal. I’m looking forward to getting back to Bitter Chocolate and reviewing both for you all! In the meantime I want to let you all know about the book and the author and be sure to enter for a chance to win a copy of both of the eBooks at the end of the post.
Publisher: Artistic Origins Inc (June, 2014)
Category: Cozy Mystery
Series: Hot Chocolate Series- Book 2
Tour Date: June 30-July 30, 2014
Available in: ebook, 400 Pages, With Recipes
About the Book
The characters you loved in Hot Chocolate are back with more escapades of life in Houston’s wealthy River Oaks.
Lila Mae is in a tizzy over the Chocolate Ball – a huge event that she and her sisters, Dorothea and Madge, host every year. But due to unusual circumstances, Dorothea and Madge dump everything in Lila Mae’s lap. If it weren’t for Julian Gillespie of Event Is King, the Chocolate Ball would have melted.
Bernie, the Alcott sisters’ 92-year-old father, decides he wants his Bentley back. The sisters and Bambi are horrified. They hire Joseph’s cousin Chewie as Bernie’s new chauffeur.
Wolfram, Lila Mae’s new astrologer, gives clues of things to come. This leaves Lila Mae and her sidekick Amelia with brows furrowed.
On her day off, Amelia decides to bake a chocolate blueberry pie. She discovers she needs to make a grocery run. When she returns home, she discovers her kitchen door is slightly ajar. Arms loaded with groceries, she toes the door open.
Three things catch her attention: a vase of flowers on the kitchen island that was not there when she left the house, her marble rolling pin covered with blood… and a dead body on her kitchen floor.
Amelia’s eyes drift toward the dining room and beyond – is the house empty, or is there a murderer inside? She backs up, turns and hurries outside. After setting the bags on the ground, she slips back into the kitchen and snaps a picture of the dead guy. Then she calls Detective Chance Walker, Lila Mae and finally… 9-1-1.
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About the Author
Dawn Ireland is the CEO of Artistic Origins Inc, a 100% woman-owned publishing and technical writing service company that has been doing business since 1995. She’s an award winning independent publisher and author of The Puppy Baby Book , Mastering Your Money, and Amazon Best Seller Hot Chocolate (the first in the series, and her fifth novel). The Hot Chocolate audio book was awarded the AudioFile Earphones Award on Valentine’s Day 2014.
Her family feature film screenplay A Girl and Her Dog was awarded a Kids First! Endorsement by the Coalition for Quality Children’s Media in October 2012 and optioned by Shadow Cave Productions in February 2013.
Originally from Feeding Hills, MA, Dawn migrated to San Antonio in 1968, then when her first son was one years old, her family moved to Houston where work was more plentiful. After 40+ years of heat and humidity, she has her sights on the Pacific NW.
Dawn is the co-author of the animated screenplay Memoirs of a Dog which won the Spirit Award of the Moondance Film Festival (children’s category) September 2011. Her dark comedy Plan B was a finalist in the Table Read My Screenplay script competition in 2010 and years before that, Standing Dead won the Women in Film and Television (Houston Chapter) screenplay award.
Stay tuned for The Last Dog (futuristic/sci-fi 2015), and Spicy Chocolate (2016).
Author Links: Website, Facebook, Twitter, Google+
GIVEAWAY – OPEN INTERNATIONALLY
Win 1 eBook Copy of Bitter Chocolate & an added bonus (from me) of Hot Chocolate too!
*CLICK HERE* and fill out the form to enter
Draw Date August 2/14
Good luck!
(comments are very much welcomed but do not count as an entry)
I hope your air clears up soon!
This sounds like a really interesting book and series – thanks for the spotlight and the giveaway!
Thanks for taking part in the tour. I sure hope the smoke clears soon. It’s about a 12 hour drive to our place but you are welcome to stay here until it does. Were experiencing forest fires too but we are far enough away not to be experiencing health problems. Stay safe!
I hope you get better quality air soon. I agree with the author, I would much prefer the Pacific NW to Houston, but unfortunately (or fortunately) the cost of living in Texas is much cheaper.
Ann