I have little to say about The Chocolate Mouse Trap. It's slightly better than the last book in the series but not as good as the first two. The title no longer bears on the actual case. Chocolate is not one of the active actors of the mystery. The romance between Joe and Lee has bloomed. They are planning their wedding, which means - and there is a clue to that as well - they are having sex at last. I must say that the murderer's intent is hazy. He seems to commit murders in panic attacks, yet it almost took the extinction of the seventh food group for the police to solve the case. The identity of the murderer was a satisfaction to realize. The book's style is similar to many cozy mysteries and it doesn't veer off in frowning readability, if you know what I mean. ( )

This book keeps you guessing as you try to figure out who the kill is. I enjoyed the story line, but when the author has the main character trip over her tongue as she speaks, it becomes bit annoying. ( )

what else could be better - chocolate and a mystery. ( )

There's an interesting premise here - this is a mild spoiler - that someone has accidentally pushed the ol' Reply To All button when they meant to just Reply, only in this case, someone is willing to kill in order to keep the contents of the email secret. If you're not a member of the target audience for this book, some of the explanations of things like "how email works" get fairly dull. But I couldn't stay focused on the story and the characters weren't all that interesting to me. Not terrible; just not all that good. ( )