Sally Berneathy

Guns, Wives and Chocolate

Lindsay hosts a welcome home party for a drug dealer’s release from prison. Soon her back yard is filled with felons, loud music, and smoke from various kinds of cigarettes.

Lindsay’s ex’s ex, Grace, arrives with her young son and her new husband, Chuck ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
Spies, Lies and Chocolate Pies

Fred’s wife is found dead. Murdered. Skewered to a tree with an arrow.

What?! Fred has a wife?

Not anymore.

In other bad news, Rick is back together with Grace. When he stands her up, ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
The Ex Who Wouldn't Die

When Amanda's lying, cheating, scam-artist husband, Charley, saves her life in a near-fatal motorcycle accident, she can almost forgive him for dragging his feet on their divorce. Then she discovers he'd been dead for several hours at the time she thought he rescued her. And not ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
The Ex Who Glowed in the Dark

Amanda's still encumbered with the ghost of her husband Charley, who was murdered before she could divorce the lying, cheating creep, and now she finds herself entangled in a kidnapping. The younger brother of her assistant, Dawson, has been abducted.< ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
The Ex Who Conned a Psychic

Amanda is still haunted by her ex-husband, Charley…literally haunted. He’s stuck between this life and the next, unable to move on, unable to get more than a couple of hundred feet away from Amanda and unwilling to go even that far. She’d like to take a shower without worrying a ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
Fatal Chocolate Obsession

A bouquet of roses, a bottle of wine, a crystal butterfly…and a dead man.

Midnight gifts for Lindsay.

As the body count rises, Lindsay begins to see danger everywhere. Not bad enough he kills people. He also murders the English ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
Murder, Lies and Chocolate

Rodney Bradford comes into Lindsay's restaurant, offers to buy her small house for double its value, eats her brownies, and drops dead on the sidewalk in front. Then someone breaks into her house and tries to dig up her basement. Next her almost-ex-h ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
The Ex Who Saw a Ghost

Five bodies in a well. One of them is the brother of a police detective.

That man’s ghost is Charley’s new best friend.

Amanda is thrilled that Charley can see him. Perhaps this means her ex-husband’s ghost is on his w ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
The Great Chocolate Scam

Rick's car blows up in his driveway. Lindsay is left with an image of Rick's green SUV flying around the neighborhood along with pieces of Rick—a blue contact lens in Mrs. Hawkins' driveway, a perfectly creased trouser leg hanging on the street sign, a vertebra on the immaculate ...

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Deadly Chocolate Addiction

A handsome chocoholic comes to Death by Chocolate, eats three of Lindsay’s desserts and rescues her from her ex, Rickhead. The mysterious man is her new best friend. She sends him on his way with a complimentary box ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
Twin Troubles and Chocolate Tortes

Paula has a secret...a secret even she doesn't know!

An elderly man moves next door to Paula and becomes Zach’s new best friend. They play baseball and draw pictures. Even Paula likes him.

Then the man falls d ...

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The Ex Who Hid a Deadly Past

 When a deadbeat customer becomes obnoxious in Amanda’s motorcycle shop, she grabs a hammer and threatens to bash his head in so far he will be able to see his dirty underwear.

Three weeks later the deadbeat is found murd ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
Chocolate Mousse Attack

A phone call at two a.m. is never good news. Lindsay’s two a.m. call is a plea for help. There’s a woman in Fred’s closet and he can’t get her out.

Their new neighbor has been sleepwalking. She’s having nightmares about the brutal stabbing of a little g ...

Category Mystery-Cozy