The local witch of Pacific Cove is back. I read Dark Chocolate and Death * Samantha Silver and I was quite interested to see if this book will also have a few chocolate recipes. I was not disappointed. In just a few chapters she’s making truffles with happiness potion.

I carefully measured out the dark chocolate I would need for the truffles into one cauldron, added the potion to the chocolate, and then heated up some cream in a second, smaller cauldron, making sure not to let it get too hot and burn. I carefully poured the cream over the chocolate and stirred the mixture until it became silky smooth. When all of the chunks of chocolate had disappeared, I lifted up the cauldron and moved it to the fridge. It was heavy; this was my first time using the large cauldron, and I had to make space in the fridge beforehand so that it could take up the entire bottom shelf.

“What’s going on?” I asked her, trying to avoid the bottom of her canary-yellow wings that fluttered close to my face. “Do you know what’s happening?” She floated back down and turned to me. “Someone’s been murdered in the bakery!”

I gasped. That was definitely not what I’d been expecting.

Blurb

Between starting her new chocolate company, trying to prove her parents’ innocence, and discovering what life with a cute corgi familiar is like, Megan definitely has her hands full. But when one of her sister Andrea’s customers is murdered, and Andrea is one of the main suspects, Megan has no choice but to help her sister solve the murder. After all, there’s nothing Chief Enforcer Lupo would love more than to throw another Numa family member in prison.

Meanwhile, a chance encounter with a smoking hot wizard from Europe finds Megan blocking out old memories, and Andrea doing her best to play matchmaker.

But as the two of them get closer to finding the killer, Megan has no idea just how much danger she and Andrea are really in. Will they be able to clear Andrea’s name before the two of them become the killer’s next victims?

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The book was an OK-ish read. Great for grade 8-12 and definitely a young YA option if you’re into mysteries and baking. The murder gets solved in under 150 pages and there’s happiness potions everywhere. Unfortunately, I don’t think this book is for me and I won’t be getting the third instalment in the series which features truffles.