The Chocolate Frog Frame-Up (2003)

Lee McKinney, lives with her Aunt Nettie and works as the business Manager for the family chocolate business in Warner Pier, MI. She has a delicate relationship with Joe Woodyard and when he is implicated in the death of Herschel, the town crazy, Lee works to resolve the problem and clear his name.

The clues are interestingly presented so that the reader follows along and puts the mystery to bed at the same time as the characters figure out the solution. A fun read! ( )

I finished this book in less than 24 hours - usually do. For chocolate lovers these are great mysteries. I fear I gain weight just reading them as they describe all the chocolates that are made in the shop in the book as well as give a nice history of chocolate, too. ( )

This is a quick cosy with a probable solution. While it is one of a series, the story was very self contained, and there were few references to 'off-book' events.
There are periodic inserts of 'Chocolate Trivia' as advertised on the cover, I found these very annoying, both becuase they interrupted the flow of the story, and because many of the facts were speculative. ( )