Christmas Caramel Murder (Hannah Swensen, #20) By Joanne Fluke
Christmas caramel murder joanne fluke
Christmas normally descends on Lake Eden Minnesota as gently as reindeer alighting on a rooftop but this yuletide season the only thing coming down Hannah Swensen s chimney is a case of murder The holidays have arrived and Hannah and her good pal Lisa have agreed to provide all the goodies for the town s annual production of A Christmas Carol But before anyone can say Bah humbug a Santa sized sackful of trouble ensues Like the fact that Lisa s husband will be playing Mr Claus to his ex girlfriend Phyllis Bates Mrs Claus Or that before the curtains even go up Phyllis is found dead in the snow wearing a costume that the real Mrs Claus would put on the naughty list Soon after the suspects pile up faster than snowdrifts in a blizzard while a merry murderer remains on the loose With clues even harder to find it might take a visit from ghosts of Christmas past to wrap up this mystery in time for the holidays Includes Over a Dozen Holiday Recipes from The Cookie Jar Christmas Caramel Murder Hannah Swensen 20 
Like Hannah Swensen Joanne Fluke grew up in a small town in rural Minnesota where her neighbors were friendly the winters were fierce and the biggest scandal was the spotting of unidentified male undergarments on a young widows clothesline She insists that there really are 10000 lakes and the mosquito is NOT the state bird. Christmas Caramel murderino While pursuing her writing career Joanne has worked as a public school teacher a psychologist a musician a private detectives assistant a corporate legal and pharmaceutical secretary a short order cook a florists assistant a caterer and party planner a computer consultant on a now defunct operating system a production assistant on a TV quiz show half of a screenwriting team with her husband and a mo Like Hannah Swensen Joanne Fluke grew up in a small town in rural Minnesota where her neighbors were friendly the winters were fierce and the biggest scandal was the spotting of unidentified male undergarments on a young widow s clothesline She insists that there really are 10000 lakes and the mosquito is NOT the state bird. Christmas caramel murder by joanne fluke While pursuing her writing career Joanne has worked as a public school teacher a psychologist a musician a private detective s assistant a corporate legal and pharmaceutical secretary a short order cook a florist s assistant a caterer and party planner a computer consultant on a now defunct operating system a production assistant on a TV quiz show half of a screenwriting team with her husband and a mother wife and homemaker She now lives in Southern California with her husband her kids his kids their three dogs one elderly tabby and several noisy rats in the attic Series site_link Hannah Swensen site_link I have faithfully read Joanne Fluke s Hannah Swenson series since the first book I used to even buy each one but 3 4 books ago I stopped and began borrowing them from the library The last book was so out of steam that I thought I might stop reading this series altogether Old habits die hard and I ended up borrowing this one At least it s short I have had the nagging feeling that Ms Fluke herself is bored with the series With this book I am convinced she has lost interest It is obvious she is not putting a lot of thought or creativity into it any It s truly a shame because I used to like reading about Hannah her sisters mom nieces assorted other characters in the town that she lives and of course her cookie shop I think most of us who read cozies read them because they like the characters and setting We feel like we are revisiting old friends I am not looking for clever twists and turns or Machiavellian plotting in a cozy I turn to other authors for that kind of thriller Andrea is not in this story at all and Norman makes one brief appearance For shame Ms Fluke I would rather you quit writing the series or even kill Hannah off then throw together a rather lame imitation of your creation Joanne Fluke This book really did not sit well with me at all First of all it felt very formulaic to all her other novels and quite juvenile The language is so basic and not at all how people converse in real life We don t tend to overstate the obvious and point out every detail of things that should be assumed and understood SPOILER BELOW Secondly I m so over the trope of the crazy Christian person being the idiot villain who hears God tell them to do something wrong Really When would that ever be okay in a book for any other religion I found it disturbing how Hannah saw someone she had known her whole life killed and a nap made her feel all better There was no trauma no period of mourning just some coffee sweets and she was back to normal She was also completely nonchalant over the death of the first victim even if it was an unlikable character Death should not be treated so trivially not to mention it s just unrealistic I also found the allusion to Charles Dickens Christmas Carol with the ghost of her father showing up just creepy and peculiar If you are going to pull off something like that it has to be done really well with a deeper message being expressed Copying Dickens in this way just didn t work in my opinion I wasn t a fan of the presumed cheating of Herb and the overall dark tone of this book which seemed misplaced in a Christmas book Overall it was boring disturbing and concluded with a weak ending Not my favorite from Ms Fluke Joanne Fluke I think I m done with this series I felt like there was recipe than story here Also I actually had to stop myself from rolling my eyes at some parts Did I really need a description of how a Keurig works Joanne Fluke In good news the book is very small The bad news is that it is still full of patronizing morons Hmm I think so and so is probably a murderer I think I will go take them some food Alone Because I m not stupid or anything. Christmas Caramel murderki77en What the heck was the point of pissing people off and having her marry Ross if the whole book is a flashback Stupid Stupid Stupid Please no of the series They are not good any Stop Done Fini Joanne Fluke I ve read all the Hannah Swensen mysteries This one left than a little to be desired The dialogue was written as if the author was trying to achieve a predetermined word count There was an exchange between Hannah and Lisa while hanging decorations Hannah said I ll stretch up Lisa replies I will bend down Really Even with the verbosity it took less than 24 hours to read Including working and sleeping At least I didn t pay for this book Thank heavens for the Library. Christmas Caramel murderbot diaries True to form Hannah once again visits someone she suspects is a murderer alone ALL BY HERSELF Ms Fluke you have beaten that horse thoroughly and completely to death Add that to the new marriage between Ross and Hannah I have always been on Team Norman maybe it is time to put the cookie jar away for good Joanne Fluke If you ve been following my reviews closely for the last few months you re probably thinking how many baking murder books does this guy read Or how many did that Joanne Fluke author woman write Well the Hannah Swensen series is up to 25 in 2018 I ve just finished reading 20 entitled Christmas Caramel Murder I have the next three on my Kindle to read this fall but I want to be fully caught up so I can get back to many other series I also enjoy As for this one it s a shorter novella version but still packs quite a little punch around Christmas season It s a good one to read as you start thinking about the upcoming holidays but for now I m still thinking about Halloween and fall so I wouldn t allow myself to totally immerse. Christmas Caramel murderflies It s written as backstory which was a different kind of read The first and last chapters are appended to the main story allowing Fluke to use current relationships in Hannah s life without confusing readers Essentially Hannah s telling the story to her new husband about what happened the prior year s Christmas I stopped myself from trying to find any timeline issues in case something happened in this book that was different since the last few but the story on the whole is fun so it wouldn t matter if it had. Christmas Caramel murderflies Herb Lisa s husband is playing Santa Claus in the town Christmas play Lisa is Hannah s best friend and partner at The Cookie Shop Herb s ex girlfriend has returned to town and is cast as Mrs Claus but the naughty kind Serves her right she ends up dead Unfortunately it looks like Lisa is the culprit because she was jealous when the ex kisses Herb in the play Throw in a some high school memories old rivalries and teachers who want to help keep their students focused and you ve got a case full of shenanigans. Christmas caramel murder by joanne fluke I enjoyed the read less than 90 minutes as it was barely 100 pages once you remove the recipes Someday I will cook a few from them I do like caramel but that s hard to get right Next up is banana cream pie murder my favorite kind of PIE Did you think I d say murder Obviously you know me well Joanne Fluke In this short Christmas novella Hannah recounts for Ross a Christmas from the year before when she was called upon to solve a murder that took place in the town theatre production Lots of jealousy between several different parties I loved that this one included many familiar Lake Eden characters Please excuse typos name misspellings Entered on screen reader Joanne Fluke Sorry but can we maybe just kill off Ross Joanne Fluke There is one thing about cozy mysteries You have to suspend your believability. Christmas Caramel murderino How many times in a small Minnesota town can a cookie store owner find dead bodies This goes for knitters librarians interior decorators and real estate agents too You have to just go with the flow I also find it questionable that a cookie store owner could make enough to support her business herself and a partner Still you re not reading this for great literature but for the cookie recipes The recipes take me back to my mother who was a master cookie maker It made me sad she isn t around to share the recipes with It also uses ingredients I haven t used in a long time like Karo syrup molasses sweetened condensed milk etc It harkens back to cooking from the 50 s and 60 s and is quite tasty It s comfort food for me The plot is negligible Hannah finds yet another dead body She investigates and finds the killer She is still having romances with both Mike the Sheriff s Deputy and Norman the faithful dentist Norman is remodeling his house to put in a huge movie screen so he and Hannah can watch old movies together I found this rather creepy Who does this It s a short book 206 pages and about a quarter of them are recipes I read it in one day It wasn t my favorite Hannah Swenson book Joanne Fluke If you take out the recipes the hokey conversations about how well they know each other the declarations of love from Mike and Norman which are super weird considering that this whole book is a story that Hannah is telling her husband Ross who coincidentally is a virtual stranger and the analysis of everyone s door knocking patterns you d have a fairly decent story of about 40 pages For me this series is like that black sheep cousin You have a sentimental attachment nice memories about the good old days and a desire to find out every once in a while how they re doing and what they re up But in the end you know they re only going to disappoint you Joanne Fluke
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