#Joanne fluke series

We should have had happy moments between Ross and Hannah mixed in with the baking and sleuthing. This should have been great, or at least, if not great, it should have been fun, and sweet and charming. Hannah and Ross come home from their cruise and Hannah begins to solve the mystery, while running her bakery and starting her new life with Ross. This was just the beginning of all the ways that Hannah no longer felt like Hannah to me. But I don’t think anyone would feel that way on their honeymoon. It’s part of why I vow I will not marry again, ever. I have to say, having been single, living alone, since my divorce over thirty years ago. He hovers too much and she’s not used to it and doesn’t like it. Ross is out of the cabin right now, and Hannah is thinking that it’s nice to have him away for a few minutes. She thinks to herself that she must call her other daughter Hannah, who is conveniently on her honeymoon, and tell her she absolutely must come home right away and solve this crime.įrom then on, the rest of the book is back to Hannah as the point of view character. She rushes downstairs into the scene of the crime, and she does find her friend dead, shot to death. Does she immediately pick up her cell phone and call 911, or her son-in-law, bill, the sheriff, or even Mike the jerk, the homicide cop? No, of course not. But then she hears a gunshot, and it was real. She hears arguing from the condo below hers, but her friend, a former Broadway actress and a now acting coach for Lake Eden’s amateur acting group, so Dolores thinks it must just be someone acting. The book begins with Hannah’s mother lounging around her condo. This is when the spoilers begin, so read at your own risk. That was then, Wedding Cake Murder.įinally, yes, I’m there, my review of Banana Cream Pie Murder. I supposed it was supposed to be funny, but it wasn’t.

So why, oh why did she go catch the killer? And then she jumps in a garbage truck to get away from him, has to be rescued again, by Mike naturally, and races down the church aisle covered in trash. She had her cell phone and at least half a dozen sheriff deputies in her contact list. Rushing off to a restaurant to catch a killer instead of rushing off to the church to marry her intended.

Mike and Norman were despicable in that one. I reviewed Wedding Cake Murder, and my disappointment with that book was deep but not overwhelming. I liked Ross from the time he was first introduced in Cherry Cheesecake Murder, so I was ecstatic when Hannah booted both previous contenders for her hand and fell head over heels in love with Ross. Obviously, if she loved either of them enough, she wouldn’t be stumbling over making a decision. I was so tired of the ongoing should-she-marry Norman or should-she-marry-mike debate that Hannah has with herself. Three books ago, when Hannah got engaged to Ross Barton, I was thrilled. I never thought I’d be so angry and disgusted with one of the books that I would consider giving up on Hannah Swensen for good.

#Joanne fluke series

Some books in the series were better than others, and I definitely had my favorites and ones I skipped over when I reread, in preparation for a new book release. I’d never cared for cozy mysteries before, but I fell in love with Lake Eden, with Hannah’s bakery the Cookie Jar, with the characters, quirky, funny, kind or not so. I rushed off to BARD-that’s the National Library Services for the blind’s braille and audio digital service-and got all the books in the series, starting at book one and making my way through to what was the last book at the time. I love blackberry anything and had to read the book. I was enchanted by the title Blackberry Pie Murder. Joanne has also published under several pseudonyms including Jo Gibson, Chris Hunter ( Eyes), John Fisher, and Gina Jackson.I discovered the Hannah Swensen series, by Joanne fluke, a few years ago. She has also written some 30 non-Swensen books including The 20 books include three stories the other pieces were by Laura Levine and Leslie Meier. Joanne Fluke also published 2 novellas called 'Candy Cane Murder' and 'Gingerbread Cookie Murder'.

Devil's Food Cake Murder (February 2011).

Gingerbread Cookie Murder (October 2010).