Meet Contestant #4, a Cozy Mystery!

A bit about this contestant:
Contestant #4 is an amateur sleuth. This contestant is a bookworm, loves cats, is humorous, and found a body in a bookstore. Could you be the plot twist they have been waiting for?

The first words they'll say to you (a snippet from the first page):
“I was promised chocolate.”
      I directed the reminder toward my best friend, Jolene Gomez, after entering the bookstore. I threw my gaze into every visible nook and cranny of To Be Read in search of chocolate-covered pecan clusters.
      Jo owned To Be Read, an independent bookstore on the southeast side of Peach Coast, Georgia. It wasn’t that I needed the food bribe to come to her bookstore–or any bookstore–especially when a bunch of authors were signing their books. It was just that, well...promises had been made.