Earthly Delights
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Introducing baker and amateur sleuth Corinna Chapman ... mysteries filled with gastronomical delights, humour and unexpected twists from the bestselling author of the Phyrne Fisher mysteries.Baking is an alchemical process for Corinna Chapman. At four am she starts work at Earthly Delights, her bakery in Calico Alley.But one morning Corinna receives a threatening note saying 'The wages of sin is death' and finds a syringe in her cat's paw. A blue-faced junkie has collapsed in the dark alley and a mysterious man with beautiful eyes appears with a plan for Corinna and her bread. Then it is Goths, dead drug addicts, witchcraft, a homeless boy and a missing girl and it seems she will never get those muffins cooked in time.With flair, chutzpah and a talent for kneading, Corinna Chapman will find out who exactly is threatening her life and bake some beautiful bread.'Greenwood provides us with lavish helpings of the ingredients essential to good popular fiction: food, frocks, furnishings and some essential frolicks beneath the sheets' - Sydney Morning Herald on Murder in Montparnasse
Series
6 primary booksCorinna Chapman is a 6-book series with 6 primary works first released in 2004 with contributions by Kerry Greenwood.
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More like 3.5 stars, but erring towards 3. The whole way through I wasn't sure what to make of it. I liked Corrina, Meroe, and Prof. Monk, but not much else. Maybe over the rest of the books you'd get to know them more? I never warmed to Daniel. And Kylie and Goss just didn't seem real. Even the mysteries were a little flat. It wasn't bad, it was good fluff, but that's about it.
This review is for the audio book version. First off, I will say that I would have given this more stars if it wasn't for the multiple use of the ‘c' word. No matter how much an author wants to keep it as close to real life as possible, the use of that word will always cause me to deduct stars. Having said that, what a hilarious and intriguing story. The author may not have intended it to be so funny but I found it to be so. While I may be in Queensland and the story set in Melbourne Victoria, the story and the main character are so Australian. I enjoyed the introduction of each of the characters; what a colourful cast they are. I greatly enjoyed this story and look forward listening to the next one.
