Is it warm enough? It has to be heated up to the point that all the guts are evenly warm, and the head should be quite warm too.
Any time my BP has ignored her food, I've reheated the water and given it another 45 seconds or so to soak, dried it off with a paper towel so that at least it's not sopping wet, and then she immediately gives it her best strike.
If warmth isn't the issue, braining the rodent can help. Just squish its head, very easy to do with a fuzzy mouse. In fact, be gentle as their skulls are still pretty soft at that point. A bit of blood will come out of the nose, which is apparently appetizing...
I've also heard of scenting the rodent with something else, but I don't know much about that so I'll leave it to the more experienced people on here.
Anyway, I hope some of that helped. Good luck!
Edit: I realized I've left something out. I would say you can remove the mouse after like 15 minutes. If she doesn't eat it then, when it's warm and fresh, she probably will not eat it once it's been sitting out and cooling + decomposing. The only time I had to leave a rodent in with mine (the first time I fed her), I checked back in 10 minutes and it was gone. But if it was still there I would have just trashed it, honestly. And I believe that time was because she was still shy/nervous about eating in her new home. I'm sure that the lights off and lid back on her tub are what made her eat. That time she had also smelled it intently from all different angles, but didn't seem to know that it was food. Perhaps she was used to eating in the dark? Who knows. Try many different things.
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