Raspberry Truffle Murder

A pen pal sent this book to me as a gift.  I hope it wasn't something she actually bought for me.  The Diana book was so serious and emotional that I decided to read this next, figuring it would definitely be light.  Mid-way through I checked reviews on Amazon and found most people gave it 5 stars.  I don't know what those people are accustomed to reading.  I was happy to see that one person, who gave it 2 stars, felt about it the way I did.

This is the most unbelievable book I've ever read.  The main character, Nikki, moves to a small t own in Vermont after her husband divorced her.  She gives up a career as a reporter and for some reason we don't know, decides to open up a chocolate shop.  On opening day, a man is killed by hit and run and Nikki for some reason is convinced someone is going to frame her for a murder, though she was working in her shop with a shop full of customers.

She takes on investigation of the murder, leaving her shop alone and in one day she has all but solved the murder, which includes doing research at a library, getting a threatening phone call, interviewing many people, making friends of the sheriff's son, getting involved with a German couple, who turn out to be the parents of the murdered man--who was a member of the German mafia.  And more.

A few times she mentions "baking chocolate" (how do you "bake" chocolate?) but never once does she mention a raspberry truffle, or even a plain truffle. The only thing she did at home was to take some chocolate chips out but who knows what she did with them.

As soon as the murder is solved and everything seems to go back to normal, there is another murder, unrelated to the first murder and she is off to investigate that as well.  All this takes place in about 3 days.

The person who gave this book 2 stars should have given it 1.  If there is anything good about it, it's only 111 pages and easy to read in a couple of hours. As the 2 star review says, "I finished it, but it was painful"

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