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Title: The Chocolate Cat Caper by Joanna Carl ISBN: 0-451-20556-1 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Debut in a Great New Series
Comment: Lee McKinney is looking for a new start after her divorce. Her Aunt Nettie needs someone to help with the business side of TenHuis Chocolade, a gourmet chocolate business in Michigan that Lee worked at as a teen. But Lee's only been back in town for a week when famous defense lawyer Clementine Ripley is poisoned while eating one of their chocolates. Clementine had made a lot of enemies over the years in her cases and seems to have just as many in the small resort town of Warner Pier. Now Lee must sort through the suspects and motives to find the real killer before she and her aunt get framed for a murder they didn't commit.
I've been looking forward to this book since I read the short story in AND THE DYING IS EASY that introduced these characters. And it didn't disappoint. The characters are well developed. Lee's way of mixing up words when she's upset or nervous is fun but not so overused that it becomes annoying and makes her more human. The story is tightly plotted and moves along at a brisk pace. The style invites the reader in and makes it very hard to put down. The only thing that seems odd is the chocolate trivia scattered throughout the book. It doesn't really add anything; it's just kind of there.
I am definitely addicted to the Chocoholic Mysteries and look forward to many more. Pick up this book and enjoy a wonderful new series.
Rating: 5
Summary: A delicious new mystery.
Comment: After divorcing her husband, Lee McKinney moves back to Warner Pier, Michigan to handle the business end of her aunts chocolate shop. But, Lee soon discovers chocolate can be deadly!
In this first chocoholic mystery by JoAnna Carl ( aka Eve Sandstrom), Lee is hired to help out at a fund raising party for the local Animal Rescue League. A party in which her aunt, Jeanette TenHuis, has provided [a lot] of chocolate for the guests. However, before the party even starts the hostess Clementine Ripley falls prey to a cyanide laced amaretto truffle, making both Lee and her aunt suspects in Ms. Ripley's murder.
Lee steps into the roll of amateur sleuth in an attempt to uncover the murderer, before she and her aunt become the next victims.
This book is a must for anyone who enjoys reading cozies. The charaters are well-developed, and the storyline is light and fast-paced making it a good vacation or beach read. I enjoyed the chocolate facts that are scattered through out the book as well as the chocolate quiz at the end.
I look forward to reading the next book in this series The Chocolate Bear Burglary.
Rating: 4
Summary: A satisfying "chocoholic" mystery
Comment: This enjoyable mystery introduces us to Lee McKinney, recently divorced and trying to start a new life in the Michigan resort town of Warner Pier. Lee returns to Warner Pier, where she spent summers during high school working in her aunt's gourmet chocolate shop. But when the town's most prominent part-time resident is murdered (apparently poisoned by a truffle from the chocolate shop), Lee becomes involved in solving the crime in order to prove her aunt's innocence.
The author did a good job of developing the character of the heroine. Lee does have a habit of saying the wrong word in moments of stress, but the effect is often funny.
Just like eating a chocolate bonbon, this first chocoholic mystery definitely left me wanting more!
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Title: The Chocolate Bear Burglary: A Chocoholic Mystery by Joanna Carl ISBN: 0451207475 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Chocolate Frog Frame-Up by Joanna Carl ISBN: 0451209850 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke ISBN: 075820230X Publisher: Kensington Mass Market Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The English Breakfast Murder (Childs, Laura. Tea Shop Mysteries.) by Laura Childs ISBN: 042519129X Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blueberry Muffin Murder by Joanne Fluke ISBN: 1575667223 Publisher: Kensington Mass Market Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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