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Tart of Darkness

A Chef-to-Go Mystery

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Tart of Darkness

By: Denise Swanson
Narrated by: Melissa Moran
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Right when Dani thinks she's hit a dead-end in her career, she unexpectedly inherits an enormous old house in a quaint college town. This gives her the perfect opportunity to pursue her true passion - cooking! So Dani opens Chef-to-Go, preparing delicious, ready-made meals for hungry students attending the nearby university, as well as providing personal chef services and catering events for the local community. To help support her new business, she opens her home to a few students, renting them rooms and becoming almost like a big sister figure in their lives.

But just as Dani is relishing her sweet new life, the friend of one of her boarders is murdered, and Dani becomes one of the primary suspects! She'll have to scramble to clear her name and save her business before the killer reappears - perhaps to silence the new chef forever.

©2018 Denise Swanson Stybr (P)2018 Blackstone Publishing Amateur Sleuths Cosy Culinary Adventures Detective Fiction Genre Fiction Mystery Small Town & Rural Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Business Student Chef Cosy Mysteries
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The idea was fun, lightweight fluff, easy to read. I enjoyed the narration.
Story was a bit draggy- felt more like setting up a series.
The links to other characters and places were appreciated.
The occasional lapse into penny romance territory spoiled this for me.

Interesting but gauche

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Nothing very, gory or drastic or sinister mindbending, just a nice, leisurely story...as a Cosu Mystery should be.

nice easy read

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I did listen to the end as wanted to know, but it should be 3-4 hours max really… I kept wanting to fast forward the ‘fluff’ A bit like skim reading. Still 100000 times better than what I’ve done though!!

A bit long for what it is

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I really enjoyed this story, I almost passed on it from some of the reviews talking about the narrator being hard to listen to but I found completely the opposite, her telling of the story was very good and easy to listen to.
the story itself was an easy well paced whodunnit which is a genre a really like so I'm happy this and the next in the series are included in the plus catalogue, it's hard to find good books included, so happy I gave this a try regardless of other people's opinions

enjoyable listen

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I really didn’t know what I would make of this, I thought it might be a bit mindless, (easy reading/chick lit etc), but it actually wasn’t. I found the audiobook delivery a little monotone, but certainly not bad, and the book/story itself was well thought out, moved along at a good pace, and kept you interested. It perhaps wasn’t my usual cup of tea, but I’d read or listen to another in the series. Perfect to have on in the background while getting on with other things. ☺️

I was pleasantly surprised!

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