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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780758210203
ISBN number: 0758210205
Label: Kensington
Manufacturer: Kensington
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: March 01, 2008
Publishing house: Kensington
Sale Popularity Level: 54551
Studio: Kensington
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Summertime has finally arrived in Lake Eden, Minnesota, and Hannah Swensen, owner of The Cookie Jar bakery, is looking forward to warm, lazy days, eating ice cream, and sharing picnics with friends. But when a family reunion takes a deadly turn, it's up to Hannah to find a killer... Between baking up a storm for The Cookie Jar and unraveling the mystery of her cat Moishe's recent strange behavior, Hannah Swensen has a lot on her plate. But she'll always make time for her business partner, Lisa, who's in the midst of preparing for a big family reunion. Everyone is delighted when Lisa's long-lost uncle makes a surprise appearance. No one has heard from Gus in twenty-five years--and his arrival has everyone buzzing with excitement.
Uncle Gus is immediately the hit of the reunion, telling tales of his great sucess and flashing money for all to see. He's almost as popular as Hannah's scrumptious carrot cake, which is also Gus's favorite dessert. But the subsequent morning, as the whole family gathers for the group photo, one person is missing. Hannah offers to track down Uncle Gus, but her search leads to a shocking find. Over by the bar at the pavilion, she spots two slices of her infamous carrot cake, frosting-side down on the floor--and Gus's corpse with an ice pick jutting out of his chest!
A little snooping reveals that not everyone was celebrating Gus's return. And when Hannah unearths more secrets from Gus's past, she discovers even more people with an axe to grind. Now Hannah's got to sift through a long list of suspects to find a killer--even if it could mean a recipe for her own demise...
Includes 12 original dessert recipes for you to try!
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I've read all the books in this series, but I think I'm finished now. It just seems that the author is just filling in a story around some recipes. Also, I've never read a book with so many typos. Were they trying to get it to the printer so fast they decided to skip this process? All in all, a very dissapointing book.
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Another tasty treat from Ms. Fluke. Her Hannah Swenson series is a winner, and I know I really enjoy it. This is a particularly strong book this time. And we have all that we have come to expect from Ms. Fluke-great characterization, a killer plot and a neat little mystery to solve. As well as lots of quite delicious recipes. I read this series because I love Hannah and her friends and family so much, but I truly enjoy the stories too. I am sad because I am caught up now in this series, and now have to wait for the subsequent book which is to come out sometime early subsequent year. This book is set at the Lake Eden resort and Hannah is involved with her business partner Lisa's family reunion, when a long-lost family member returns to the family fold, and then is found dead. Hannah must figure out what has happened, and she does so with the help of her sisters and Norman. This is a great cozy series!
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I just don't have the patience anymore. Initially the series was tight and fun, with recipes thrown in as an added bonus. Now Hannah is getting unlikeable and full of herself and, if she is so concerned with being an old maid, why doesn't she do something about it? It's tiresome and I think an earlier reviewer put it best when likening it to having a high-school crush on two boys at the same time. This isn't high school and it is a bit insulting to "small-town" living in that it's ridiculous to believe that Hannah and only Hannah has this amazing ability to solve crimes whilst her little cult of personality grows by leaps and bounds. Soon there won't be anyone left who hasn't had a family member killed and had to deal with Hannah's crime-solving prowess. Yikes. I get the impression that the author is getting a bit lazy and personally doesn't feel like bringing the triangle to a resolution for fear of alienating either the "Normans" or the "Mikes". Unfortunately, this leads to cringe-inducing moments that just make these books almost intolerable anymore. Perhaps Fluke should take a break from the series, compile a nice cookbook, then just be brutal and be done with it. It's just not fun anymore.
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I love the series - each one seems to be better than the last - and the recipes - I've tried many of them from the different books in the system - so far they have all recieved raves from not only family but from fellow teachers. Thanks for the wonderful recipes! ! !
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But -- a lot of the book I found silly and/or irritating.
I thought the main character, Hannah, was kind of a prig, and her romantic triangle a bit too prim and proper for this day and age and a woman who is clearly well out of her teens.
And -- although I am a major cat lover -- there was WAY too much about Hannah's cat in this book. Who really wants to listen to descriptions of the cute things a cat did, unless the cat is your own cat! And I never did understand the cat tree this cat received as a present, despite an extensive description. I read the cat scenes because I kept thinking the cat had something to do with the plot.
I also think this would be a very bad book to read if you were on a diet, because there are a lot of descriptions of food and recipes -- not in the appendix, but mixed right in there with the book. I found this annoying and distracting from a pretty good plot.
The book needed a copyeditor, including one who would do some fact checking. A character flies from the Central Time Zone to Eastern Standard Time, and there's a conversation about what time is it there. Well, if it's almost 2 pm, it's almost 1 pm in CST, but the character acts as if she's talking to someone in Mongolia. Additionally, the author has already told us that this character is eating pizza so early in the day the parking lot at the restaurant is practically empty -- which is not likely to be the case around 1 pm! I think the Californian author was thinking of PST rather than CST.
Still, the plotting was pretty good, and it's light reading. I'm just glad I was given the book and didn't spend my own money on this.
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