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Carrot Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries) | 
 enlarge | Author: Joanne Fluke
Publisher: Kensington
Category: Book
List Price: $22.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 8473
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0758210205
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780758210203
ASIN: 0758210205
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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Condition: Hardbound/DJ c. 2008 Kensington; ISBN: 0758210205 ; Tight, square boards; Text has no marks, or bends; 1/2" chip on one page, else no tears. Dust Jacket is unclipped, bright, shiny with sharp edges. Mylar protective cover. X-LIBRARY stickers. FAST SHIPPING in padded mailer.
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Product Description
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 success 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 next 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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 Meh... September 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
 Pure Fun ! ! June 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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! ! !
 Probably more like 2 1/2 stars -- good enough plot that I kept reading June 17, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
Carrot Cake Murder June 9, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I always wait for the next Joanne Fluke book to come out to see what Hannah Swensen and her sisters are going to do next and to see if she makes a decision between Norman and Mike. It is a good clean fun book and I really enjoyed reading it. The combination of mystery,food and fun are great. The recipes in the book are an added plus.
This Book Was Just OK June 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've read every book in the series so far & have enjoyed reading them. BUT, I have to agree with some of what the other reviewers have mentioned.
-The Mike/Norman thing is getting pretty old now.
-Every time someone visits someone, they have to serve cake/cookies. I'm surprised the characters don't all weigh 300 lbs! Way too much emphasis on bakery goods!
-The characters constantly telling Hannah, "I have to talk to you." They all tell Hannah stuff, but not the police. They come to her to ask if they should mention certain things to the police. Right!
-Even Mike thinks he needs Hannah to help him. Hannah might as well get a part-time job as an investigator - that way, the book won't seem so unrealistic.
-The most perfect/smartest/prettiest girl in the world - Tracey - is an annoying character. If she were more like a real kid her age, she could be a valuable character in the book series.
-Like in most mysteries, the characters always have to drive over to someone's house to ask a question instead of simply calling.
-Asking Hannah to make Red Velvet Cookies because they might make an Alzheimer's patient remember things. Oh, please.
I figured out the murderer early on. It was too obvious. Hard to imagine anyone killing someone for the reason that was stated.
Hopefully, the next book is better.
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