Blueberry Muffin Murder
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Joanne Fluke
Winter in Lake Eden, Minnesota, gets heated when a murder upends Hannah Swensen’s best-laid baking plans in this beautifully repackaged trade paperback reissue from Joanne Fluke’s New York Times bestselling mystery series. Preparations are underway for Lake Eden, Minnesota’s annual Winter Carnival—and Hannah Swensen is set to bake up a storm at The Cookie Jar. Too bad the honor of creating the official Winter Carnival cake went to famous lifestyle maven Connie Mac—a half-baked idea, in Hannah’s opinion. She suspects Connie Mac is a lot like the confections she whips up on her cooking show—sweet, light, and scrumptious-looking, but likely to leave a bitter taste in your mouth. Hannah’s suspicions are confirmed when Connie Mac’s limo rolls into town. Turns out America’s “Cooking Sweetheart” is bossy, bad-tempered, and downright domineering. Things finally boil over when Hannah arrives at The Cookie Jar to find the Winter Carnival cake burnt to a crisp—and Connie Mac lying dead in her pantry, struck down while eating one of Hannah’s famous blueberry muffins. With the crime scene off-limits, Hannah’s only alternative is to cook up a plan to save her business—by finding the killer herself . . .
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Author
Joanne Fluke
Pages
336
Publisher
Kensington Books
Published Date
2013-04-11
ISBN
1617731269 9781617731266
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"Once again, Hannah provided a fun mystery to get lost in. Each character brought their own flair to the story with Hannah's sister Andrea stealing the show as she finds her own confidence and abilities as she develops as a character. Although you have your ideas of who did it... it is a delightful surprise to discover the true culprit at the end. A real treat of the audiobook version is the narrator once again captures the feel of the characters brining her own flair to the novel. This was a fantastic read. Adding in Hannah's mysteries into my regular reads brings a really fun break from the more serious books that make it on my reading list. "
Phreia Von Woolfgaard
"Pros:<br/><br/>I think the scenes dealing with Lisa’s father and Alzheimer’s are beautiful, powerful, important and should be highlighted. They show the struggle of what I’m assuming to be the earlier stages of the disease but also how connection does still happen and interaction is so good. I love that he explained not being able to find words as them fluttering away like a butterfly but coming back if he thinks about something else. It was perfect for a child but also an image that I think would allow people to really feel it.<br/><br/>Cons:<br/><br/>I appreciate that the point of the stories is Hannah figuring out the murders but I would really love to see her not finding the body sometime and having to get the starting details from gossip and chatter. It is very improbable for her to have found so many bodies in a short time in a small town not known for crime."
Rene Burrows