Lee Woodyard manages the TenHuis Chocolade working for her very good friend who is the wife of police Chief Hogan of Werner Pier, Michigan. Werner Pier is a very small town with only a couple of eateries and only one Motel that stay open all winter. Most things close up during the winter when the vacationers are not around.
Things get a little tense when a private detective shows up asking after a woman. When he shows Lee the picture and Lee sees that it is a young woman she recently hired who is working part time for cash while she is being hidden by the town battered woman program Lee gets concerned. When she finds that detective that night dead and stuffed partly behind the dumpster in back of TenHuis she becomes a little frightened.
She works with her friends getting the young woman out of town fast so that she won’t be harmed. When the lady who took her out of town does not call in Lee and her friends get concerned. When that lady is also found dead, stuffed in the back of a car in a friend’s garage who happens to be away on vacation Lee gets even more concerned. It is time to let the Sheriff and her husband know what is going on so that they can get this murder solved and maybe life back to normal.
But before that can happen Lee and her husband Joe are captured by the killer, who is the young woman thought to be a battered woman and held captive in their own basement. In the exciting conclusion they escape from the basement where they had been locked up and manage to summon the Sheriff and FBI. They arrive in the nick of time to capture the bad guys and everyone lives happily ever after.
“The Chocolate Cupid Killings” is a pretty good story. It holds together nicely and is entertaining. But it is not a special story, being somewhat predictable. Still, it gets a 6 of 10 on the Weaver meter for being well done.
