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The Chocolate Castle Clue (2011)

by JoAnna Carl(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

045123474X (ISBN13: 9780451234742)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

NAL Hardcover

series

A Chocoholic Mystery

review 1: This was a borderline 3 rating. Lee Woodward is the owner of TenHuis Chocolade in Warner Pier, Michigan. She is cleaning out some old file cabinets and finds a box of photographs and a trophy from the Castle Ballroom. Her aunt Nettie is hosting a reunion of her former schoolmates with whom she performed as the Pir-O-Ettes, a local singing group. Lee takes the box to show the women but their reaction is confusing. One of the women screams and runs when she sees the trophy and Lee soon learns that the owner of the Castle was killed on the same evening that the Pir-O-Ettes won the trophy. His death was ruled a suicide but his widow, Verna Rice, is still trying to prove that it was murder. When Mrs. Rice is killed herself, Lee begins to look into the death of both her an... mored her husband. This was an OK mystery. I was kind of annoyed by some of Lee's attitudes and the mystery was very obvious but it was OK.
review 2: I recently learned this type of book is called a cozy mystery. Reminds me of a Nancy Drew for adults and they talk about chocolate! Lee gets involved with her Aunt Nettie and her high school friends called the Pier-O-Ettes. About 40 years have passed since the girls have been together and there is a little mystery surrounding something that happened many years ago. Middle aged women are not forthcoming about that fateful night when they were teens. It's an easy read filled with the innonence of youth. I liked that Lee really spells out what she is thinking so you are kept abreast of what is progressing with solving of the situation. less

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