When a seedy looking private investigator from Atlanta
comes into TenHuis Chocolade looking for a woman named
Christina Meachum, Lee Woodyard can honestly say that no
one by that name works there, or has ever applied for a job
at the chocolate store. However, Lee recognizes the
picture she is shown as Pamela, one of her part-time
employees who have used an abused women's underground group
and she has stopped over in Warner Pier, Michigan on her
way to who-knows-where. Lee isn't involved in the group,
but her Aunt Nettie's close friend, Sarajane Harding, works
very closely with the organization and asked Nettie to give
Pamela a job. Lee's husband, Joe, and Nettie's husband,
chief of police Hogan Jones, are unaware of their wives'
involvement in hiding a runaway spouse, but that is about
to change.
That evening Nettie discovers the body of the investigator
in the alley behind TenHuis. Lee comes upon this scene
shortly thereafter, and contacts Hogan and Joe.
Arrangements have already been made to get Pamela out of
town, and she has an air-tight alibi for the entire
evening. Who else would want to kill this man?
Lee's other concerns are about Joe. He has been so quiet
and withdrawn, but will not talk with her about what is on
his mind.
This ninth offering of the Chocoholic Mystery series is a
delicious treat for cozy fans. Real people you have met
and kept up with are on hand to help Lee figure out
whodunit and why -- and the guilty culprit is a real
surprise. JoAnna Carl is an author that never disappoints.
Ninth in the scrumptious-and national
bestselling-Chocoholic Mystery series.
TenHuis
Chocolade is wall-to- wall with chocolate hearts for
Valentine's Day. But Lee is getting no love from Private
Detective Derrick Valentine.
He's looking for their
employee-a woman Lee and her Aunt Nettie have been
harboring
for an underground railroad-type organization that aids
abused women. Luckily, they manage to not spill the cocoa
beans and clue him in.
But the situation becomes a
complex confection when Valentine meets his end. And it's
Aunt Nettie who becomes a suspect. Lee will have to find a
way to free Nettie of guilt without exposing the
innocent-and find a killer with a bitter heart that's
definitely not made of chocolate...
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