Chocolate makes a highly popular theme within the popular cooking mystery genre. THE CHOCOLATE SNOWMAN MURDERS is well written, fast paced, and easy for me to relate to. The death of an obnoxious, drunken official for the Christmas art show is not a grievous event except to the committee member w...
I really enjoy this series. Yes, it's partly because my husband's family is from the same part of Michigan where the series is set so it feels familiar. But mostly it's because Carl manages to write books which are light without also being fluffy. They're not gory or graphic and all the relations...
Another cute cozy mystery in a series. I read one that I really enjoyed – this one I didn’t like as much. I think because it got solved quickly at the end and didn’t flow as well with the clues throughout the story. Lee is the manager of Ten Huis chocolates in Warner Pier so there are some ref...
This book was a great mystery. It always kept you on the edge and was super intriguing. When I was reading it I couldn't put it down. I also liked it because you weren't having nightmares at night... i get scared super easily! This book also had an underlying love story and it was really cute. It...
TenHuis Chocolade is such a busy place Lee thinks they may need more help. When she overhears an argument in the grocery store and does a little investigating she believes she has found her new payroll clerk. Forsynthia "Sissy" Smith is a the granddaughter of the area's only remaining hippie. She...
Hollywood has arrived in Warner Pier in the form of Aubrey Andrews Armstrong. He plans to make a movie based on the book Maia Michaelson wrote on her family history. But Lee McKinney suspects something isn't right from the start. Aubrey seems too smooth and too good to be true. She seems to be th...
Twenty-eight-year-old ex-Texas beauty queen, Lee McKinney, always thought that money was the solution to everything. After witnessing the downfall of her parents marriage over finances it seemed that nothing could be more true. However, after surviving five years of marriage with money-hungry mil...
With the second book of the Chocoholic series, I enjoyed some elements of it and while I didn't like others.When an antique dealer Gail is killed, and her stepson is accused of the crime, Lee has to prove his innocence. Is mainly the plot of the book but there are a lot of elements of the book th...
In her rare free time, newlywed Lee McKinney Woodyard works on TenHuis Chocolade's newest offerings, chocolate jewels. But soon the town of Warner Pier has its very own jewel heist, and then a body is found in the lake. Lee can't help but wonder if the crimes are related. Maybe if she digs up som...
Lee McKinney has recently joined the Seventh Major Food Group. No, the FDA hasn't added another level to the pyramid; it's a group of local merchants who are involved in fancy food and parties. Organized by Julie Singletree, a woman trying to get a party planning business going, the group exchang...
I am only just starting this book and it's awful. I am one of those people who can't stop reading something once they've started, so unfortunately, I'm trapped.I keep hearing my elementary school teacher's voice in my head lecturing me on the importance of showing and not telling when writing sto...
Caught up in a whirl of champagne and china patterns, bride-to-be Lee McKinney has butted heads with her future mother-in-law over every detail of the wedding bash. The last thing she needs is trouble with her own mother. But this is bigger than the hot versus cold hors d’oeuvres debate: Sally Mc...
I felt sorry for Garnet and Dick. They seemed to be nice people, and it was unpleasant to think that the robbery meant a serious financial loss to them, and possibly a family split over Alex’s actions. But learning more than I needed to know about the Gold/Garrett family finances wasn’t a large c...
“I don’t know! There’s nothing out here but trees.” “What can you see? A gas station? A road sign?” “Lee, I’m out in the woods on some dirt road! I’ve been using my GPS, but I guess I got it all confused.” I pressed the speak...
Butch Cassidy sounded as if he needed all the help he could get. The door to the back hall and basement was only a few steps away, and he and Miss Vanderklomp were nose to nose outside it. They ignored us newcomers completely. “Mr. Cassidy,” Miss Va...
Tilda yelped out the words. I dropped to my knees beside her. “Mrs. Davidson?” I shook her gently. “Wake up, Emma.” “I’d better call Chuck. He should know what to do.” “Call 9-1-1, Tilda. If Emma didn’t wake up at the noise w...