Earthly Delights
Corinna Chapman was once a high profile accountant and banker. Now she is a baker working in her own business, Earthly Delights, in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Australia.Corinna is living in an eccentric building on the Roman model called Insula. She is quite content with her cat, Horatio, and her...
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Corinna Chapman was once a high profile accountant and banker. Now she is a baker working in her own business, Earthly Delights, in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Australia.Corinna is living in an eccentric building on the Roman model called Insula. She is quite content with her cat, Horatio, and her shop until a junkie falls half dead on her grate, a gorgeous sabra stalks along her alley and tells her that she is beautiful, and she starts receiving threatening letters accusing her of being a scarlet woman. Then it is Goths, lost girls, fraud, late nights, nerds, and beautiful slaves. Life for Corinna has suddenly become interesting. And she still needs to get her bread out in time for the morning rush....
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781590585146 (1590585143)
Publish date: June 1st 2008
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Pages no: 239
Edition language: English
Category:
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Womens,
Cozy Mystery,
Culinary,
Australia
Series: Corinna Chapman (#1)
This was a bit of a weird reading experience for me. I liked the characters and the mysteries and the descriptions of the food and the goings-on in Corinna’s bakery, and yet I kind of hated the writing style. It’s in first person with occasional stream-of-consciousness-esque shifting verb tenses whi...
Corinna is a baker who ends up getting sucked into a mystery when a herion junkie ODes on the grate across from her bakery. Interesting book..not sure if I'll continue the series.
This book was a lot of fun. I've read 4 or 5 of Greenwood's Phryne Fisher series, and enjoyed them as well - Corinna Chapman was a very different sort of main character. Fisher is pretty much perfect - drop dead gorgeous, rich, can do anything, almost like a cartoon heroine - not a problem, fun rea...
I still don't know what I think of this story. I read it all, relatively quickly.With each press on the Kindle, I wondered why I was still reading it, but read it I did.I think it was a romance. Well, "I love yous" were exchanged.I think there was a mystery, people died and people almost died and ...
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/270886087