Bought today during my lunch hour, for $0.99 at Big Deals Thrift Store. Not my thing, but I couldn't resist adding a cat mystery to my shelf at that price! Available.

From the front cover:

The Chocolate Cat Caper: A Chocoholic Mystery
by JoAnna Carl

EVERY CHOCOLATE IS SINFUL... BUT ONLY ONE IS TO DIE FOR.

"A mouthwatering debut!"
-- Tamar Myers

From the back cover:

ENJOY THE GUILT

After giving up her career as a Texas trophy wife, Lee McKinney finds herself in a Michigan resort town, keeping the books for her aunt Nettie's luxury chocolate business. But she soon discovers that her new life isn't all truffles and bonbons....

Clementine Ripley, the defense attorney everyone loves to hate, is throwing a party that calls for several thousand dollars' worth of custom chocolates - some made in the image of her champion cat. Lee jumps at the job, but sweet success takes a bitter turn when someone adds an extra ingredient - cyanide - to one of their delicious chocolates and it finds its way into Ms. Ripley's mouth. Now it's up to Lee to figure out who tampered with the family recipe before she and her aunt end up behind not-so-chocolate bars.

INCLUDES YUMMY CHOCOLATE TRIVIA!

"As delectable as a rich chocolate truffle... satisfies to the last prized morsel."
-- Carolyn Hart

"A delicious new series! Feisty young heroine Lee McKinney is a delight in this chocolate treat."
-- Tamar Myers

From the front page:

CHOCOLATE LOVERS, REJOICE!

JoAnna Carl first gave readers a taste of her Chocoholic Mystery series in the short story "The Chocolate Kidnapping Clue". And in the words of Publishers Weekly: "This satisfying appetizer will leave fans hungering for the main course, Carl's upcoming novel, The Chocolate Cat Caper." The wait is over.

Don't miss Lee McKinney's first "Chocoholic" investigation in the short story collection And The Dying Is Easy, All-New Tales of Summertime Suspense by Tamar Myers, Dana Stabenow, Max Allan Collins, and Others, edited by Joseph Pittman and Annette Riffle.

Saw that LOTUSNEKO was ISO of this on the Wishlist forum; offered as a RABCK. To be mailed soon...

Mailed today. Enjoy!

Thank you very much for the RABCK. I plan to begin reading The Chocolate Cat Caper today.

The Chocolate Cat Caper is the first in the Chocoholic mystery series by JoAnna Carl. Like a candy bar, the book goes down easy and leaves a sweet taste in your mouth. Soon, you will want another. The story is about former Texas trophy wife Lee McKinney as she begins a new life in a Michigan lakeside resort town. Lee helps her beloved Aunt Nettie run an upscale chocolate shop. At a catered affair at a wealthy but hated resident's home, the hated woman dies after ingesting Aunt Nettie's chocolates. A man from Lee's teenage past is the victim's widower. He clashes with the woman's personal assistant, who has taken the murder very hard. Can Lee exonerate her chocolate shop before it is forced to close from lack of business?

This book would make a great TV episode a la Murder She Wrote. It is entertaining with a solid mystery for the reader to solve, but does not contain any very dark subject matter, sex, or profanity like so many other mystery series out there.

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