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The Chocolate Cat Caper
by Joanna Carl
An enjoyable mystery set in and around a cutesy Dutch chocolate shop in a tourist town in Michigan. When Lee and Aunt Nettie of TenHuis Chocolates are commissioned to produce chocolate reproductions of a wealthy woman's Birman cat for an exclusive soirée, little do they suspect they will soon be at the heart of a mystery around poisoned chocolates!
Okay first things first, this is chocolate porn pure and simple. It wasn't necessary to the mystery to stop and linger on the making of the chocolates at every point but it was sure enjoyable. There are even cutaway factoids on chocolate peppered throughout the book.
The mystery was so-so and could have unfurled more logically - but overall I enjoyed the setting and would give the series another chance as this was the first book.
Also I wouldn't detract from the author for this, but the e-book version I read was full of typos. It was like it had been OCR scanned and then Penguin couldn't be bothered to pay a human to read it, which shocked me. One paragraph, for example:
"She'd had surgery. His lips twichted. "Pretty recent. A bob job."
I gasped. "So that's what whe saw the plastic surgeon about!"
A bob job?!? Lol
Okay first things first, this is chocolate porn pure and simple. It wasn't necessary to the mystery to stop and linger on the making of the chocolates at every point but it was sure enjoyable. There are even cutaway factoids on chocolate peppered throughout the book.
The mystery was so-so and could have unfurled more logically - but overall I enjoyed the setting and would give the series another chance as this was the first book.
Also I wouldn't detract from the author for this, but the e-book version I read was full of typos. It was like it had been OCR scanned and then Penguin couldn't be bothered to pay a human to read it, which shocked me. One paragraph, for example:
"She'd had surgery. His lips twichted. "Pretty recent. A bob job."
I gasped. "So that's what whe saw the plastic surgeon about!"
A bob job?!? Lol