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    • Pub. Date: October 2009
    • 240pp
    • Sales Rank: 7,215

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      • Pub. Date: October 2009
      • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
      • Format: Hardcover, 240pp
      • Sales Rank: 7,215

      Synopsis

      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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      Though the TenHuis Chocolade gals of Warner Pier, Mich., are busy selling luscious Valentine's Day treats, finding a Valentine body in their alley can't be good for business. When private detective Derrick Valentine shows up flashing a photo of missing Christina Meachum, store manager Lee Woodyard denies knowing any such person, even though the picture looks just like one of her employees. Pamela has been placed in TenHuis Chocolade by the owner, Lee's Aunt Nettie, whose friend Sarajane runs an underground railroad for battered woman. When Valentine is found dead behind the store dumpster, Lee and her friends and relatives are in a quandary. Neither Nettie's husband, the town police chief, nor Lee's, the city attorney, knew of the scheme to keep Pamela hidden. The underground picks up Pamela and moves her along, but not far enough to escape her problems. Meanwhile, a crooked financier is using his Warner Pier home for a hideout, and Lee's husband refuses to explain why he's meeting with some mysterious strangers. Lee's poking into Pamela's past opens such a nasty can of worms that she ends up in real danger. Like Lee's earlier cases (The Chocolate Snowman Murders, 2008, etc.), this one offers enough mystery and chocolate trivia to keep fans happily turning pages while munching on bonbons (not supplied).

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      Biography

      JoAnna Carl is the pseudonym for a multipublished mystery writer. She spent more than twenty-five years in the newspaper business.

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      August 09, 2009: Lee McKinney Woodyard is the business manager of TenHuis Chocolade owned by her Aunt Nettie; who is harboring an abused woman in her home. Her friend Sara Jane Harding, owner of a B & BB, is involved in the underground railroad that helps women in danger of being killed by an abuser to obtain new identities, homes, and money in order to start over elsewhere. Currently Christina Meacham who uses the name Pamela Thompson is staying with the aunt and niece until they can find a place for her to begin anew.

      Pamela's husband Harold ran a chop shop that had mob connections; he released his stress by beating her up. She testified against him in court leading to his sentencing of five years in prison. Now he is free and hunting his spouse. Private Detective Derrick Valentine visited TenHuis asking for Christina; Lee lies, but also knows her ward must leave town immediately. That night Nettie finds a dead Valentine near the dumpster; the women conclude Harold is involved. Pamela leaves town escorted by another woman on the railroad, an underground conductor, but when they assume they are finished with Christina, she returns.

      Readers should not taste this amateur sleuth on an empty stomach because of the mouthwatering descriptions of chocolates, which lead to snacking. The plot is cleverly constructed with false leads and intriguing twists leaving the mystery unpredictable, plausible and entertaining. JoAnna Carl provides a terrific thriller.

      Harriet Klausner