Helpful Score: 4
Very good cozy mystery about the Ten Huis Chocolade shop with Lee McKinney and her Aunt Nettie. Julie Singletree is so sweet and wants to be everyone's friend, sending email to all. Then, suddenly she is murdered and her computer is missing! Along with humor and suspense, the author JoAnna Carl keeps you guessing until the very end! Plus the extra facts about chocolate add mouth-watering ideas!
Helpful Score: 3
This one is the best chocoholic mystery yet. Carl has gotten into the groove of depicting these characters, the choppiness in the writing that was evident in the earlier ones is gone completely and the storyline flowed smoothly. I still find Lee's malapropisms annoying rather than endearing, but there were far fewer of them in this book than in previous ones. The plot was a bit transparent in some ways. I knew who the killer was very early one, just wasn't entirely sure why. Out of the 5 chocoholic mysteries this one had the most flair and polish. A quick, easy read that leaves you hungering for chocolate!
Helpful Score: 3
Chocolate shop manager Lee McKinney is so tired of "inspirational" e-mails from party planner Julie Singletree that she's ready to strangle her with the cord of her own computer mouse. But she's shocked when somebody actually kills the woman - and steals her computer. After all, the e-mail list Julie set up was for professionals in the party food business - people more interested in hor d'oeuvres than in homicides.
Helpful Score: 2
This no. 5 in a series of mysteries with a little chocolate thrown in. Nice easy read, great for these winter nights.
Joy L. (vintagejoy) -
Helpful Score: 2
I really enjoyed this book, the characters are great and the plot makes this a real page turner.
Penny T. (iluvmysteries) reviewed The Chocolate Mouse Trap (Chocoholic, Bk 5) on + 431 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I think this series gets better with each book.
Helpful Score: 1
Part of a series, each book stands on its own.
Good mystery, interesting and likable characters.
Good mystery, interesting and likable characters.
Helpful Score: 1
When bodies start showing up Lee has to find out why her friends are dieing. Very good book...kept me wanting to find who the killer was and why. There are twists and turns that make you suspect several people before the book ends.
Great as always!
This one was hard to figure out who done it.
Loved it!
This one was hard to figure out who done it.
Loved it!
Fun read
Melissa (sugarbaby) -
Great series!
Shannon Y. (dolphinlover) reviewed The Chocolate Mouse Trap (Chocoholic, Bk 5) on + 209 more book reviews
I enjoy all of JoAnna Carl's books and this one is no exception. A very fun read that helped me to relax and get my mind off of things.
I love this series. It's calming & peaceful to me (despite the murders!) I enjoy the cast of characters - not too many to keep track of, just a fun small-town mystery. Quick easy reading. It's like visiting an old friend.
Stephanie S. (punkinema) -
The fifth in the chocolate series begins with Lee exasperated with Julie Singletree's constant emails. Lee and Julie are members of an informal group called the Seventh Food Group. Julie sends jokes, inspirations, etc. so much so that it feels like spam to them all. Julie is mysteriously murdered and very odd things are happening to the others' computers. A second murder casts suspicion on everyone in the group. There are attempts on Lee and Lindy's lives and everyone is nervous, watching their respective backs. The book moves quickly and is an easy read. I enjoyed it as much as the other 4!
Corrina T. (cocoamomo) reviewed The Chocolate Mouse Trap (Chocoholic, Bk 5) on + 83 more book reviews
Fourth in the Joanna Carl "Chocoholic Mysteries." It is a pleasure to read, especially while eating chocolate!
Could not put it down.
This book is another episode in the life of Lee and Joe as they cope with murder in a small Michigan resort town. Characters are well drawn. Plot is well thought out, and, as always, the solution is a surprise. To me, Lee's malapropisms are somewhat distracting, but any mystery lover will enthusiastically latch onto this book.
Deanna P. (sweetcitytreasures) reviewed The Chocolate Mouse Trap (Chocoholic, Bk 5) on + 4 more book reviews
Another in a great series!
A wedding planner is murdered and Lee and her friends are suspects. Lee needs to find the murderer before their businee reputations are ruined. As usual,lots of handmade chocolates are mentioned throughout the book. "Such sweet torture"!
Karol R. (GoodChickie) reviewed The Chocolate Mouse Trap (Chocoholic, Bk 5) on + 136 more book reviews
a MYSTERY THAT ALSO SUPPLIES TASTY CHOCOLATE TRIVIA.
Heather F. (AZmom875) -
It had me guessing til the end. So the series is still going strong.
This book is part of the "chocolate mystery" series by Joanna Carl. Lee investigates the death of a wedding planner who sent inspirational emails to a small group of associates. Very quick read, fun and great characters.
good mystery series with info on chocolate.
I enjoyed this book. The plot is humourous and the trivia is cute.
Allison W. (sealady) reviewed The Chocolate Mouse Trap (Chocoholic, Bk 5) on + 657 more book reviews
Book Description: "Chocolate-shop manager Lee McKinney has had enough of party planner Julie Singletree's cutesy e-mails. Then somebody actually kills the woman, putting everyone on her mailing list on edge. As their connections to the murder emerge, so do more attacks. Lee smells a rat-and it's not made of chocolate. And if she doesn't want to be permanently deleted, it's up to her to trap it."
Great, funny and a quick read
A fun mystery about a young girl and her aunt that have a chocolate shop in a small town. I am enjoying this series for light reading.
Great book. I love this series. Characters are so loveable and you can't believe the trouble they get into.
Great fun read - love the series. Have gotten the others also.
Bonnie A. (ladycholla) -
Enjoy this story very much. Characters fun and developing each book. Mystery easy and cozy.
Another good Lee McKinney chocoholic mystery, I enjoy this series.
Susan P. (TirzaM) -
Easy reading mystery.
Fun cozy mystery.
Number 5 in the Chocoholic Series with Lee McKinney, Aunt Nettie, handsome Joe, Dolly Jolly and all the other residents of Warner Pier, Michigan. Love this series.
Colleen H. (Dove) -
I am thoroughly enjoying this series --it has Michigan and chocolate! What else does a book need? LOL
Joan O. (southerncooker) reviewed The Chocolate Mouse Trap (Chocoholic, Bk 5) on + 106 more book reviews
Another good cozy chocolate mystery.
5th in the chocoholic cozy mystery series with tasty chocolate trivia
A chocolate shop manager runs afoul of murder of an instigator of the email list for the party food business in a resort town in Michigan
Lee McKinney is back with another misadventure involving emails and chocolates. Very funny!
JoAnne Carl's "cozy" mysteries are always fun.
Nice cozy in the TenHuis Chocolade series. Lee is getting annoying e-mails from a business contact, but when local computers come down with a virus and 2 bodies turn up, she thinks there's more to the e-mails than she thought.
really good, fast read tho and now i want the next one.
