The Chocolate Raccoon Rigmarole by JoAnna Carl
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Cookie burglars, raccoon babies, Tzarist imitation jewelry and old army buddies all mix in to bring confusion to Warner Pier. Lee is curious why there are snack burglaries, but since no one has been hurt -yet- she's more concerned about trapping the raccoon family that has moved into the alley behind the chocolate store. But then the violence escalates, with a store owner trapped into a storage room, a dead deputy in the alley, and claims of large lumpy things hanging about.
This mystery was a bit confusing at times, but everything gets wrapped up in the end, and I was not sure who the killer was.

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From Herring to Eternity by Delia Rosen
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

When a regular customer is found dead, by poison, Gwen Nash's Deli gets her herring confiscated. Another death soon follows, and Gwen finds herself trying to solve the murders, while fighting off an archeological dig in her basement by setting up her home as a Wiccan temple. Confused yet? Kudos to the author for surprising me with both the killer and their motive. Warning: There is a lot of Yiddish used in the book. It did not bother me, but YMMV.

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