Bakery owner Hannah Swensen has a dress to fit into and a date with her sister, Andrea, at Lake Eden's new health club, Heavenly Bodies. Dragging herself out of bed on a frigid Minnesota morning for exercise, of all things, is bad enough. Discovering the body of man-eating bombshell Ronni Ward floating in the gym's jacuzzi? Okay, that's worse. Nor does it help that there's a plate of The Cookie Jar's very own cream puffs garnishing the murder scene. Trying to narrow the list of Ronni's enemies down to fewer than half the ...
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Bakery owner Hannah Swensen has a dress to fit into and a date with her sister, Andrea, at Lake Eden's new health club, Heavenly Bodies. Dragging herself out of bed on a frigid Minnesota morning for exercise, of all things, is bad enough. Discovering the body of man-eating bombshell Ronni Ward floating in the gym's jacuzzi? Okay, that's worse. Nor does it help that there's a plate of The Cookie Jar's very own cream puffs garnishing the murder scene. Trying to narrow the list of Ronni's enemies down to fewer than half the town's female population, Hannah has her plate full. Trouble is, when it comes to cookies - and to murder - there's always room for one more...
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A LA MODE- with recipes included! Light weight ok mystery read.
bbonjc
Nov 20, 2011
Delightful
The book arrived in a timely fashion and in condition expected.
Haven't yet read it, but expect to enjoy it as much as the rest of Joanne Flukes' mysteries.
BeckyJG
Jul 12, 2009
Cream Puff Murder: Very Tasty
If you're having a hard week, a bad month, an awful year, if the economy's got you down and the man has you whipped, you could do far worse than to pick up one of Joanne Fluke's Hannah Swensen mysteries (with recipes). They are light and frothy, full of flavor but very little substance--perfectly satisfying, in other words.
Cream Puff Murder is no exception. Just a few pages into it Ronni Ward--town bad girl and aerobics instructor--is murdered in the hot tub at the local fitness club. Practically every man in town is a suspect, as Ronni has flirted--and maybe done more?!--with them all. Unfortunately, detective Mike, one of Hannah's two boyfriends, is among the implicated, and Hannah's got to solve this one with just the help of her two sisters, her mother, her other boyfriend Norman (the dentist) and Norman's mom, Carrie. Sounds like a lot of help? Well, you try working with five amateurs on a murder case...especially if you're an amateur yourself.
Needless to say, the case does get solved, Mike and all of the other guys are absolved, and Hannah seems a little bit closer to making a choice between her two boyfriends. Maybe in the next book, Ms. Fluke?
Reading the recipes and dreaming about how delicious they'd be if one got off her butt to bake any of them is more than half the fun of this sweet and creamy mystery. Another large portion of the fun is wondering why people don't leave small town America in veritable droves, if the murder rates in Cabot Cove, Maine and Lake Eden, Minnesota are anywhere near representative of the rest of America's small towns. Must be because the cookies are so good.