This book is simply delicious. H.Y. Hanna is an author who is writing veraciously. She already has one very delightful mystery series, Oxford Tearoom Mysteries, about a tea shop in a small village where the owner and her employees keep running into murder investigations that they help solve. Now she is starting this second series, Bewitched By Chocolate, with a twenty something year old Caitlyn, is looking to discover her birth family after the loss of her adoptive mother. She stumbles across a small village in the Cotswolds and of course a murder that the locals are having trouble solving.
This is a fun plot line where if you let go of your need for reality you can get lost in the world of witches and witchcraft. Living in this community is the old angry woman who owns the dark, dusty chocolate shop at the end of the lane. There are the nosy, gossipy ladies who hang out at the post office. Don't forget the old woman's daughter and granddaughter who run herbal shop. And no cozy mystery series would be complete without the handsome love interest who lives in the mansion on the other side of the woods.
The recipe is for murder is set. Caitlyn is intrigued with the village, the chocolate shop especially, where you can smell and taste the delicious chocolates that taste so good they may be enchanted.
Even Bertha, the woman who owns the herbal shop explains to Caitlyn the potency of cacao, "The ancient Mayans and the Aztecs knew about this. They called it xocolatl - 'food of the gods'. Cacao beans were associated with wisdom and magical power, and the ancient witches and shamans used it in the spell working rituals."
So settle down with one of H.Y. Hanna books and dig your teeth into a delicious, melt in your mouth plot that will fill you up with feelings of satisfaction as you try to figure out who the murder is and if the romance will blossom.
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