Lone Star Book Blog Tour: A Study in Chocolate by Amber Royer (giveaway & review)

A STUDY IN CHOCOLATE
Bean to Bar Mysteries Book 5
by
AMBER ROYER
Cozy Culinary Mystery / Women Sleuths / Romance 
Publisher: Golden Tip Press
Date of Publication: January 27, 2023
Number of Pages: 260 pages 
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Felicity Koerber’s bean to bar chocolate shop on Galveston’s historic Strand is expanding, as it has become a gathering spot for the community, despite having been the scene of multiple murders. Artists she met while doing a chocolate sculpture are now working out of the shop. So when Felicity is invited to tea by an eccentric art collector, she’s intrigued, especially when she gets asked to pose for a portrait done with chocolate on chocolate. Only, where there is a murder the next day at the same historic house where the tea was held, one of Felicity’s artist friends becomes the main suspect.
When the killer threatens that unless Felicity unravels the murder, one of her two love interests will be the next victim, she finds herself unwittingly at the center of a puzzle with a Sherlock Holmes-obsessed murderer who wants to be the next Moriarty – and wants to cast Felicity as Sherlock.
Felicity starts finding unexpected connections between her friends and acquaintances and must deal with the idea that someone who knows her is a murderer. At the same time, she has to keep her business running, despite construction dust and unruly customers – and an unexpected order for thousands of truffles.
Satchmo the retired police-dog-turned-therapy dog returns to help her sniff out a few clues, and the kidnapping of Ruffles, the quirky artist’s cat, helps lead Felicity into the puzzle. Can Felicity solve it in time to protect the people she cares about from becoming additional victims?

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“Everything about my life had changed, without my consent.”

A Study in Chocolate by Amber Royer is a marvelous cozy mystery that covers all the necessary elements of intrigue, murder, multiple suspects, relationship woes, an historical mansion, an emotional support cat named Ruffles, and lots of scrumptious chocolate.

Felicity Koerber owns a specialty chocolate shop in Galveston, Texas, called Greetings and Felicitations, and and she is currently waffling between two love interests: Arlo, a childhood friend and previous boyfriend, and Logan, her current business partner. Love is in the air, but which guy will win out? Murder is also in the air, of course, in Galveston, and Felicity is at the center of this Sherlock Holmes style mystery. With too many possible culprits to sift through and a murderer forcing Felicity to play the “game” to keep Logon from being the next victim, Felicity, Logan, and Arlo are scrambling to piece the clues together and narrow down the list of suspects before the given deadline. With one red herring after another and almost everyone with motives and alibis, the game just seem unsolvable. What would Holmes do?

Amber Royer delivers a classic whodunit and entertains readers with quirky characters and a mystery that resembles both Sherlock Holmes’s A Study in Scarlet and the game of Clue. While A Study in Chocolate is book 5 in the Bean to Bar Mysteries, it can stand alone just fine. Many references to previous murders that Felicity lands neck deep in does not distract from the story but instead will probably make readers want to grab the entire series. As cozy mysteries go, this one is a winner and a chocolate lover’s dream come true.

Despite a few grammatical missteps, this story (and the entire series) is a must read for all mystery lovers, especially if you enjoy a great mystery with a Holmes flair. Another great aspect in this story is that readers find out what is going on right along with the main characters, with the author expertly keeping everyone in the dark for quite a long time. This story is easy to read, the mystery is moderately hard to solve, and the characterization is varied and fun. What’s not to love?

Enter the giveaway below on or before March 10, 2023, for a chance to win some truly amazing prizes!

I received a free copy of this book from Lone Star Book Blog Tours in exchange for my honest review.


Amber Royer writes the Chocoverse comic telenovela-style foodie-inspired space opera series and the Bean to Bar Mysteries. She is also the author of Story Like a Journalist: A Workbook for Novelists, which boils down her writing knowledge into an actionable plan involving over 100 worksheets to build a comprehensive story plan for your novel. She also teaches creative writing and is an author coach.
Amber and her husband live in the DFW Area, where you can often find them hiking or taking landscape/architecture/wildlife photographs. If you are very nice to Amber, she might make you cupcakes. Chocolate cupcakes, of course! Amber blogs about creative writing technique and all things chocolate.
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ONE WINNER:
Signed copy of A Study in Chocolate +
a chocolate bar from French Broad Chocolate.
(US only; ends midnight, CST, 3/10/23)

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