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Devil's Food

Corinna Chapman's Murder Mysteries 3
Series: CORINNA CHAPMAN
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Devil's Food by Kerry Greenwood is a delightful crime and thriller novel featuring the witty and sharp Corinna Chapman. Set in Melbourne, Corinna, a talented baker, finds her routines disrupted by mysterious events, including an unusual case of poisoned cupcakes and the disappearance of a nearby resident. As she delves deeper into the mystery, she navigates challenges that test her sleuthing skills while blending culinary charm with detective intrigue.
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Someone is poisoning people with weight loss herbal teas and then there are odd things happening at the Cafe Vlad Tepes (which attracts a very strange clientele indeed) . . . Another delicious recipe for murder, mayhem and mystery in the Corinna Chapman series.

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If there's one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, can't abide, it's people not eating well—particularly when there are delights like her very own, just-baked, freshly buttered sourdough bread to enjoy. So when a strange cult which denies the flesh and eats only famine bread turns up, along with a body which is found in a park, dead of malnutrition, Corinna is very disturbed indeed.

But she doesn't only have that to contend with: her hippie mother, Starshine, has turned up out of the blue, hysterical that Sunlight, Corinna's father, has absconded to Melbourne with all their money and a desire for a new young lover; someone is poisoning people with weight loss herbal teas; and then there are odd things happening at the nearby Cafe Vlad Tepes, which attracts a very strange clientele indeed. Altogether, it's a delicious recipe for murder, mayhem and mystery.

The third in the Corinna Chapman series, Devil's Food is another irresistible, criminally entertaining read from the master crime writer, Kerry Greenwood.

If you'd like to know more about Corinna, her bakery and her recipes, log onto earthlydelights.net.au.

Series: CORINNA CHAPMAN

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    Cooking the Books follows Corinna Chapman, a talented baker and reluctant investigator, who is trying very hard to do nothing at all on her holidays. Her gorgeous Daniel is only intermittently at her side, as he's roaming the streets tracking down a multi-thousand dollar corporate theft. Jason, her baking offsider, has gone off to learn how to surf. Meanwhile, Kylie...
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  • Heavenly Pleasures
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  • Trick or Treat
    Trick or Treat by Kerry Greenwood features Corinna Chapman, amateur sleuth, baker extraordinaire, and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, as she returns for her fourth criminally entertaining and delicious adventure. When a cut-price franchise bakery opens its doors just down the street from Earthly Delights and crowds flock to purchase the bread, Corinna Chapman is understandably nervous. Meanwhile, the...
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  • Forbidden Fruit
    Corinna Chapman, owner of Earthly Delights, detests Christmas. She's dreaming of quiet, air-conditioned comfort but instead finds herself dealing with a rose-loving donkey named Serena, a maniacal mother with staring eyes, a distracted assistant searching for the perfect muffin recipe, her friend the fearless witch Meroe, and the luscious Daniel, with whom she'd like to spend a lot more time....
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    Devil's Food
    If there's one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, can't abide, it's people not eating well—particularly when there are delights like her very own, just-baked, freshly buttered sourdough bread to enjoy. So when a strange cult which denies the flesh and eats only famine bread turns up, along with a body which is...
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Book Details

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ISBN: 9781741147100

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 January 2006

Country: Australia

Imprint: Allen & Unwin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 252g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Kerry Greenwood is the author of twenty-eight novels and the editor of two collections. The first twos books in the Corinna series are Earthly Delights (2004) and Heavenly Pleasures (2005). Previous novels in the Phryne Fisher series are Cocaine Blues, Flying too High, Murder on the Ballarat Train, Death on the Victoria Dock, Blood and Circuses, The Green Mill Murder, Ruddy Gore, Urn Burial, Raisins and Almonds, Death Before Wicket, Away with the Fairies, Murder in Montparnasse, The Castlemaine Murders, Queen of the Flowers and Death by Water. She is also the author of several books for young adults and the Delphic Women series. When she is not writing she is an advocate in Magistrates' Court for the Legal Aid Commission. She is not married, has no children and lives with a registered Wizard.

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  • Queen of the Flowers
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  • Heavenly Pleasures
    No one has less interest in mysteries than Corinna Chapman, who has bread to bake, but they seem to be arising spontaneously in the vicinity of her bakery, Earthly Delights. Between the mouth-watering distractions of loaves and muffins, of Jason, her apprentice, and Horatio, the cat, she's keeping an eye on the door as she waits for the exciting Daniel,...
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  • Earthly Delights
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