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"""Lose all thought of New Year's diets, you who enter Australian author Greenwood's delectable second Corinna Chapman cozy."" -Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewCorinna Chapman wakes at four every morning to make bread. She's happy with her life. The residents of her little Melbourne community finally caught the rotten man sending those ""scarlet woman"" letters. The former addict she rescued from her alleyway, Jason, is shaping into a good apprentice. And her beautiful Israeli lover, Daniel, show more who has been away for the last couple of weeks, is as enchanting as ever.Corinna has no intention of doing any more investigative she bites into what should have been a lovely violet cream gourmet chocolate and instead chomps a chili-filled catastrophe.Could someone want Heavenly Pleasures, her friends' chocolate shop, to fail? Is this tasteless tampering part of an elaborate and horrible joke? Or is it a warning that worse is to come?Then Daniel returns bruised and battered from a run-in with a so-called messiah. Could the assailant be involved in the chocolate crime as well? And who is the mysterious man who has moved into the upper apartment?". show lessTags
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Heavenly Pleasures - Greenwood
3 stars
This book shares its title with a gourmet chocolate store in Melbourne. Corinna Chapman is drawn into the troubles of the shop owners when someone begins to spike the chocolates with nasty flavors. A bomb threat, real estate fraud, and a lost kitten are also on the menu. I enjoyed Corinna’s quirky companions but the mysteries were not compelling. It’s also interesting that a book published less than 20 years ago could already feel dated.
3 stars
This book shares its title with a gourmet chocolate store in Melbourne. Corinna Chapman is drawn into the troubles of the shop owners when someone begins to spike the chocolates with nasty flavors. A bomb threat, real estate fraud, and a lost kitten are also on the menu. I enjoyed Corinna’s quirky companions but the mysteries were not compelling. It’s also interesting that a book published less than 20 years ago could already feel dated.
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***** A deliciously busy book with an eccentric cast of characters and some frightening ones as well. There are mysterious new residents in the building, problems in the chocolate shop, a missing girl, a suspected bomb, major fraud, a chess game, and death threats. All that in addition to Senior Constable Lepidoptera White, Sister Mary, The Mouse Police, a rescue right out of Sir Walter Scott, and some really dim hired goons. Then there's all the humor. Of course I loved it!
The incredible voice actress narrating this wonder is Louise Siverson!
***** A deliciously busy book with an eccentric cast of characters and some frightening ones as well. There are mysterious new residents in the building, problems in the chocolate shop, a missing girl, a suspected bomb, major fraud, a chess game, and death threats. All that in addition to Senior Constable Lepidoptera White, Sister Mary, The Mouse Police, a rescue right out of Sir Walter Scott, and some really dim hired goons. Then there's all the humor. Of course I loved it!
The incredible voice actress narrating this wonder is Louise Siverson!
I only read the first of this series a month or so ago and loved it. I didn't have quite the same reaction to this one, although I liked it a lot. Perhaps it would have been better to wait longer and give myself a chance to miss the characters.
Anyway, the writing is still great quality, the humour that I enjoyed from the first book is still very firmly evident and the cast of characters are an enjoyable bunch of people to spend a few hours with. In summary a light, well-written escape from reality.
Anyway, the writing is still great quality, the humour that I enjoyed from the first book is still very firmly evident and the cast of characters are an enjoyable bunch of people to spend a few hours with. In summary a light, well-written escape from reality.
I started reading this, and then realized it was the second book in the series. The first 15 pages were intriguing enough that I went and found the first book, in audiobook format, and listened to it before continuing.
I liked the first book, but somehow when I returned to this book, it didn't work for me. Maybe one quirky Australian mystery novel about a baker is my yearly quotient? I don't know, but I gave up on it about 35 pages in.
I liked the first book, but somehow when I returned to this book, it didn't work for me. Maybe one quirky Australian mystery novel about a baker is my yearly quotient? I don't know, but I gave up on it about 35 pages in.
This book was better than the first one, possibly because the plots were calmed down a bit. Three main plots - someone spiking expensive chocolates, a mysterious man being target by some toughs, a 'messiah' causing problems in the local remand centre. Same problems as the first - more Buffy references, more bad baking, more screwing with the Greeks and Romans. There was also a bit of discussion about finance which I don't think was written as well as it could have been
But, all in all, an improvement. I was looking forward to the third book
But, all in all, an improvement. I was looking forward to the third book
Gag! As smart and witty as the Phryne Fisher series is, this was the opposite, saccharine and trite.
Pretty much exactly the same book as Earthly Delights which is, of course, what you want from cosy detective fiction. So in that, it doesn't disappoint.
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- Canonical title
- Heavenly Pleasures
- Original title
- Heavenly Pleasures
- Original publication date
- 2005-01-01
- People/Characters
- Corinna Chapman; Sylvia Dawson; Gossamer; Heckle (cat); Andy Holliday; Cherie Holliday (show all 23); Horatio (cat); Jekyll (cat); Kylie; Juliette Lefebvre; Selima; Vivienne Lefebvre; Charles Li (Chas); Kepler Li; Lucifer the cat; Ma'ani; Meroe (wiccan); Professor Dionysius Monk; Mrs. Pemberthy; Darren Smith (the God Boy); Ben White; Senior Constable White (Lepidoptera); Daniel Cohen
- Important places
- Australia; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Victoria, Australia
- 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' - Dedication
- This book is dedicated to a very dear Sister-In-Crime, Carmel Shute. A woman of remarkable determination, charisma and kindness.
With many thanks to Jean Greenwood, the remarkable Annette Barlow and all at A and U, the Gen-X Support Group, Sarah-Jane Reeh for Lucifer, David and Dennis and all. - First words
- Have I told you how I feel about four in the morning?
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)For all of us.
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- English
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