The Chocoholic Mystery Books in Order: How to read Joanna Carl’s series?

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Some Chocolate flavored mysteries.

What is The Chocoholic Mystery Series about?

Written by JoAnna Carl-the pseudonym of Eve K Sandstrom, a multi-published mystery writer-The Chocoholic Mystery series served up some chocolate dishes with a side of murder.

The story revolves around Lee McKinney. The divorcee had returned to Michigan, in the city of Warner Pier, to work for her aunt’s chocolate business, TenHuis Chocolade, but dead bodies always seem to cross her path and she can’t help to put on her amateur sleuth hat.

How to read The Chocoholic Mystery Books in Order?

Every book in the Chocoholic Mystery series works as a standalone story, but the lives of the different characters evolve from one novel to the other.

  1. The Chocolate Cat Caper (2002)
  2. The Chocolate Bear Burglary (2002)
  3. The Chocolate Frog Frame-Up (2003)
  4. The Chocolate Puppy Puzzle (2004)
  5. The Chocolate Mouse Trap (2005)
  6. The Chocolate Bridal Bash (2006)
  7. The Chocolate Jewel Case (2007)
  8. The Chocolate Snowman Murders (2008)
  9. The Chocolate Cupid Killings (2009)
  10. The Chocolate Pirate Plot (2010)
  11. The Chocolate Castle Clue (2011)
  12. The Chocolate Moose Motive (2012)
  13. The Chocolate Book Bandit (2013)
  14. The Chocolate Clown Corpse (2014)
  15. The Chocolate Falcon Fraud (2015)
  16. The Chocolate Bunny Brouhaha (2016)
  17. The Chocolate Shark Shenanigans (2019)
  18. The Chocolate Raccoon Rigmarole (2021)

What is the plot of the Chocoholic Mystery novels?

For more information about the books in the Chocoholic Mystery series by JoAnna Carl, you’ll find below the official synopsis for all the books:

The Chocolate Cat Caper – 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 McKinney jumps at the job, but sweet success takes a bitter turn when someone adds and extra ingrediant-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 Aunt Nettie’s recipe.

The Chocolate Bear Burglary – Lee McKinney and Aunt Nettie can’t believe their luck. A teddy bear promotion will have tourists flocking to Warner Pier, which could mean skyrocketing sales for TenHuis Chocolade. To help decorate the scrumptious store, their friend Gail, an antique dealer, lends them a collection of valuable chocolate molds. But after a burglary at the shop, Gail meets with a grisly fate-and the main suspect in her murder is Lee’s troubled teenage stepson.

The Chocolate Frog Frame-Up – For the Fourth of July, Lee McKinney and her aunt debut their latest confections-chocolate frogs-at TenHuis Chocolade. The first customer to buy a croaker is the town crank. But when he later disappears and police suspect foul play.

The Chocolate Puppy Puzzle – Hollywood comes to Michigan when a film producer decides to turn a local author’s romance novel into a blockbuster. Although the movie mogul’s chocolate labrador is charming, Lee McKinney thinks the producer’s talk is a bunch of sweet nothings-and she grows even more suspicious when she stumbles upon a dead body.

The Chocolate Mouse Trap – 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.

The Chocolate Bridal Bash – 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. Irked that her mom might be MIA on the Big Day, Lee heads to her aunt’s chocolate shop for advice. There, she is shocked to learn, her mother ran away on what would have been her own wedding day-hours before her fiancé was found dead, an apparent suicide. Now, to smooth things over with her mother, Lee must untangle a mystery older than she is…

The Chocolate Jewel Case – 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.

The Chocolate Snowman Murders – The much anticipated Winter Arts festival is here, and as treasurer of Winterfest, Lee is up to her elbows in mix-ups behind the scenes. When the art show’s guest juror shows up drunk, Lee lets him sleep it off, only to find out later that someone’s put the visiting dignitary into a permanent state of repose. Lee and Joe were the last people spotted near the crime scene, and it’s up to them to find the real killer.

The Chocolate Cupid Killings – It’s Valentine’s Day at TenHuis Chocolade, but Lee McKinney is getting no love from detective Derrick Valentine. He’s looking for one of their new employees-an abused woman who Lee and her Aunt Nettie have been hiding. But when Valentine meets his own sticky end, it’s Aunt Nettie who is suspect…

The Chocolate Pirate Plot – Ever since Young Blackbeard became the biggest movie of the decade, everyone has caught pirate fever, including the residents of Warner Pier. When Lee McKinney and her husband Joe take their boat out on Lake Michigan, they’re stunned when a mischievous band of pirates hops on board. Lee’s is the first boat boarded that summer, and the town couldn’t be more amused by the mysterious buccaneers. But when a body washes up on shore, the pirates’ antics stop being so entertaining.

The Chocolate Castle Clue – When Lee discovers a dusty trophy hidden away inside TenHuis Chocolade, she is eager to share it with her aunt Nettie. The timing couldn’t be better-Nettie is hosting a reunion for her old high school singing group, the Pier-O-Ettes. Unfortunately, the trophy brings back terrible memories of the night of the group’s trophy-winning performance at the Castle Ballroom. The ballroom’s owner was found shot to death. Now Lee has a mystery to solve.

The Chocolate Moose Motive – As much as the chocolate concoctions at TenHuis Chocolade can tantalize people’s tongues, Lee McKinney’s newest hire is more likely to make them wag. Forsythia “Sissy” Smith is the granddaughter of Warner Pier’s resident hippie. The previous winter, Sissy’s husband, Buzz, was found dead, and even though her alibi was airtight, the gossip are still pointing their fingers at her. Then the chief gossip is found dead, with Sissy on the scene. Was she lured there?

The Chocolate Book Bandit – Running TenHuis Chocolade keeps Lee McKinney busy enough, but now she’s been offered two different positions in the town of Warner Pier-one on the tourism committee and another on the library board. To decide between the two, she goes to Warner Pier’s historic library to check out the board’s monthly meeting. There, she’s alerted by the terrified screams of the library clerk. She has discovered the lifeless body of Abigail VanRoostock, a prim and proper retiring member of the board.

The Chocolate Clown Corpse – Iit’s been a month since the miserable shop owner of Clowning Around was killed, and everybody’s moving on, including Lee McKinney. Her chocolate shop, TenHuis Chocolade, is next door to Moe Davidson’s shuttered tourist trap, and it’s giving her delicious ideas to expand. But over whose dead body? When Lee tours the building, she finds Moe’s widow, Emma, unconscious. Now Lee wonders whether Moe’s real killer is still at large and is taking care of unfinished business.

The Chocolate Falcon Fraud – The Warner Pier tourism board is kicking off its Tough Guys and Private Eyes film festival with The Maltese Falcon, and Lee and her Aunt Nettie are preparing a delicious chocolate noir tie-in at TenHuis Chocolade. What Lee isn’t prepared for is a face from the past: Jeff Godfrey, her former stepson. The last time Jeff showed up in town, he wound up being accused of murder. Then Jeff goes missing, the Falcon theme is haunting everyone, and a body falls at Lee’s feet when she opens the front door.

The Chocolate Bunny Brouhaha – The approach of Easter means a rush of business at TenHuis Chocolade, and Lee and her Aunt Nettie need all the help they can get to make their famous chocolate bunnies. Unfortunately, new hire Bunny Birdsong is a clutzy basketcase dropping everything she picks up. Lee hopes they can find a peaceful way to settle their dispute and not bring any more trouble to TenHuis. But when Bunny’s wealthy aunt is discovered dead in the vacant store next door, it’s clear to Lee there’s a bad egg in her midst.

The Chocolate Shark Shenanigans – When a house near Lee and Joe’s home goes up for sale, the couple teams up with Lee’s aunt and uncle, Nettie and Hogan, to buy it, remodel it, and resell it for a sweet profit. But after the owners of the house, the Baileys, accept their offer, a local developer, Richard “Spud” Dirk, suddenly swoops in with a higher one, and it seems their dreams might be snatched away. When a long-hidden gun is found behind a pipe in the Baileys’ basement, Lee begins to suspect a mystery is afoot.

The Chocolate Raccoon Rigmarole – A frantic late-night phone call from her right-hand woman Dolly Jolly brings Lee Woodyard to the scene of a break-in at the Warner Pier jewelry store next door to TenHuis Chocolade. To her shock, the suspect being held at gunpoint by police is Dolly’s boyfriend, Mike Westerly, who was recently hired as a night watchman specifically to prevent break-ins. Dolly hopes Lee can help straighten out the crazy misunderstanding.

What should you read if you like the Chocoholic Mystery novels?

If you like reading Joanna Carl’s Chocoholic Mysteries, you may be interested in the Cupcake Bakery Mysteries, the Hannah Swensen series, Amish Candy Shop Mysteries

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