Corinna Chapman runs her own bakery, Earthly Delights, and in this novel she helps investigate who is spiking random chocoaltes with chilli and soy sauce at Heavenly Pleasures, the chocolate shop run by two Belgian sisters just down the street from her own establishment.
Critical reception
In The Advertiser newspaper Katharine England called the novel "a tasty morsel...written with Greenwood's customary verve and wit, and is as warming as onion soup on a cold day and as titillating to the tastebuds as a champagne truffle."[4]
Graeme Blundell, in The Weekend Australian, found the author's "first-person narrative irrepressibly segues from subject to subject with the brisk dispatch of a hotel room maid folding towels. There's so much character the plot constantly vanishes."[5]
Publication history
After the novel's initial publication in Australia by Allen & Unwin in 2005[1] it was reprinted by Poison Pen Press in the USA in 2008.[6]
Dedication: This book is dedicated to a very dear Sister-in-Crime, Carmel Shute. A woman of remarkable determination, charisma and kindness.
Epigraph:
Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, But hail them as Sister and Brother, For though they be little and fubsy, It may be the Bear is their mother. (Rudyard Kipling, The Law of the Jungle)[8]
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