My favorite prickly heroine, Charity Penn (or Penn, as she prefers to be known since her given name was chosen as a reminder of her family status as unwanted foundling), is starting to settle into life running her late grandmother’s chocolate shop in the South Carolina island town of Camellia Beach. Her newfound maternal family…
Charity Penn is not your usual cozy mystery heroine. As an heiress of somewhat dubious parentage, her entire life before the novel’s open is primarily one of distrusting others, from the family that keeps her at arms’ length to the many people willing to lie to her to gain access to her fortune or otherwise…
I’m kind of sorry I started the Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery series with this third installment because it’s so awesome that I wish I’d jumped in from the start! Charity Penn—or Penn, as she’s better known—is the owner of The Chocolate Box, a specialty chocolate store located in the quiet island town of Camellia Beach,…
