Chocolate Covered Murder

Bleh. Just not my thing. Abandoned on page 103.

I spent two hours trying to get through this, so I'm going to go ahead and count it read...after all, I got further than the novella length.

Lucy is a part-time reporter. She's more concerned with her body image than spending time with her husband, though she says she has a happy marriage. Her primary method of getting clues is through her job at the paper. She doesn't like her boss and is continually making snide comments about her coworkers. She loves to gossip with her neighbors, and they have little good to say about anybody.

The writing is shabby and the description haphazard. For example, we see her dog three times before finding out it's a Lab. But we get a blow-by-blow of what's on tv when she's talking to her husband while she worries about her dieting. And there's a lot of telling this, telling that, which further slows what action there is. Plus, winter tourism and snow and chocolate and diets and expensive chocolate and daughters getting jobs and winter tourism and snow and fudge and Oh! Wonder if Max was actually murdered? And winter tourism and not liking her boss and smarmy rich people and snow and ...

That was all I could take. Seriously? Where is my mystery?

Overall, I found Lucy to be often discontent and I really, really wanted to actually have a mystery.

Not recommended.