THE CHOCOLATE MOOSE MOTIVE

Lee hires a bookkeeper, Sissy Smith, to help her run the business side of TenHuis Chocolade. But it seems the personable young woman is the focus of vicious gossip. Her husband was found shot to death, and the resort town’s busybodies think she pulled the trigger. Is she innocent? If so, who’s guilty? Lee has to find out to keep the business going.

JoAnna Carl is the pseudonym of a multipublished mystery writer. She spent more than twenty-five years in the newspaper business, working as a reporter, feature writer, editor and columnist. She holds a degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma and also studied in the OU Professional Writing Program. She lives in Oklahoma but spends much of her summer at a cottage on Lake Michigan near several communities similar to the fictional town of Warner Pier.