A nutcracker nightmare : a killer chocolate mystery / Christina Romeril.

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Romeril, Christina [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Romeril, Christina. Killer chocolate mystery ; Publisher: New York : Crooked Lane, 2023Edition: First editionDescription: 298 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

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9781639104918
1639104917

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Summary: "Hanna and Alex, owners of the Murder and Mayhem book and chocolate shop, are busy preparing for the Harriston High School’s reunion weekend. Neighbors will connect with old friends and perhaps try to avoid old foes. One person no one can avoid is Kyle, the former star quarterback, who is busy using his entire playbook to try and score with Hanna, even threatening her if she doesn’t play nice. At the reunion, Alex glimpses more drama than nostalgia as insults are flung around like a football at a Friday night game. The party is put on hold when Alex finds the dead body of none other than Kyle himself, bludgeoned to death by a nutcracker that the sisters admired earlier in the night. Hanna quickly becomes the prime suspect—someone saw her slap Kyle in the face at the reunion dance. She’ll need her sister, their sleuthing canine, Watson, and their old friends and colleagues to help break this case wide open. While looking through old yearbooks and taking a stroll down memory lane, Alex uncovers a few secrets about Kyle, now, it seems like everyone had a motive to kill him. But when the suspects start becoming the victims, Alex and Hanna know that they can’t melt under the pressure—they must find the killer before they become just another yearbook memory"-- Provided by publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Fiction	New Books	FIC ROMERIL	Checked out	01/08/2025	36748002572669

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Hanna and Alex, owners of the Murder and Mayhem book and chocolate shop, are busy preparing for the Harriston High School's reunion weekend. Neighbours will connect with old friends and perhaps try to avoid old foes. One person no one can avoid is Kyle, the former star quarterback, who is busy using his entire playbook to try and score with Hanna, even threatening her if she doesn't play nice. At the reunion, Alex glimpses more drama than nostalgia as insults are flung around like a football at a Friday night game. The party is put on hold when Alex finds the dead body of none other than Kyle himself, bludgeoned to death by a nutcracker that the sisters admired earlier in the night. Hanna quickly becomes the prime suspect - someone saw her slap Kyle in the face at the reunion dance. She'll need her sister, their sleuthing canine, Watson, and their old friends and colleagues to help break this case wide open. While looking through old yearbooks and taking a stroll down memory lane, Alex uncovers a few secrets about Kyle, now, it seems like everyone had a motive to kill him. But when the suspects start becoming the victims, Alex and Hanna know that they can't melt under the pressure - they must find the killer before they become just another yearbook memory.

"Hanna and Alex, owners of the Murder and Mayhem book and chocolate shop, are busy preparing for the Harriston High School’s reunion weekend. Neighbors will connect with old friends and perhaps try to avoid old foes. One person no one can avoid is Kyle, the former star quarterback, who is busy using his entire playbook to try and score with Hanna, even threatening her if she doesn’t play nice. At the reunion, Alex glimpses more drama than nostalgia as insults are flung around like a football at a Friday night game. The party is put on hold when Alex finds the dead body of none other than Kyle himself, bludgeoned to death by a nutcracker that the sisters admired earlier in the night. Hanna quickly becomes the prime suspect—someone saw her slap Kyle in the face at the reunion dance. She’ll need her sister, their sleuthing canine, Watson, and their old friends and colleagues to help break this case wide open. While looking through old yearbooks and taking a stroll down memory lane, Alex uncovers a few secrets about Kyle, now, it seems like everyone had a motive to kill him. But when the suspects start becoming the victims, Alex and Hanna know that they can’t melt under the pressure—they must find the killer before they become just another yearbook memory"-- Provided by publisher.

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Kirkus Book Review

Who's killing off the class of 1999? That's a question identical twins Alex Wright and Hanna Eastham have to answer to keep Hanna out of jail. The sisters own Murder and Mayhem: Killer Chocolates and Bookshop in Harriston, Montana, where Hanna dreams up uncommon recipes for chocolate treats and Alex works the bookstore side while gaining a reputation for finding dead bodies. In the days before Christmas, the sisters are extra busy turning out treats, but they're also involved with providing chocolate and helping at a high school reunion, though they're relative newcomers to the area. The twins get to meet the graduates, many of whom still live nearby. One of them, Kyle Allerton, turns out to be a thorn in Hanna's side who won't take no for an answer, even though Hanna's already in a relationship, albeit a shaky one, with a sheriff's deputy. Brash former football star Kyle appears to have made enemies of all his classmates; he's rumored to have been involved with everything from cheating scandals to purposely injuring a football rival. At the reunion dance, Alex, going in search of paper towels, finds Kyle dead in the basement utility closet. Despite the obligatory warnings from the sheriff, Alex can't help but sleuth when Hanna becomes a suspect over an incident with Kyle at the dance. Alex's biggest problem is winnowing down the list of people who hated Kyle. When a gossipy blogger delivers a comprehensive report on Alex's sleuthing activities after another classmate is murdered, she becomes a target herself. Romantic woes and plenty of guilty-looking characters are well integrated into this otherwise cheery Christmas tale. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.