Andrea is pregnant in this book, and watching the relationship between the two sisters is fun. You can see how they fight and get along. But when the sheriff dies in this book, the girls must bond because everyone's a suspect. I didn't really buy the whole "cops are the suspects" because of it being the sheriff. It made for a fun story tho. Still a good series. I happened to catch 2 of the stories they made into a TV series on Hallmark (I think). I enjoy the cozy mystery... like-able main charac...

Despite her revulsion, Hannah looked at the area Mike indicated with his flashlight. He was right. There was a smear of something dark on Sheriff Grant's uniform shirt. She cleared her throat and forced herself to speak. "That's not blood." "It's not?" Hannah shook her head. "It's fudge frosting. Sheriff Grant died eating one of my cupcakes!" Hannah is teaching her weekly cooking class in cozy little Lake Eden's school, when she discovers the fudge-stained corpse of overbearing, unscrupulous She...

It’s October. Minnesota is getting cold. Hannah is teaching a baking class, trying to figure out the “secret ingredient” in a long-deceased town elder’s fudge cupcake recipe, and her brother in law is running for sheriff against the current sheriff. Then, the current sheriff turns up dead… with chocolate cupcake smeared on his shirt. Hannah is working to clear her brother in law’s name, and find that missing ingredient. The trouble is, everyone had a bone to pick with the old sheriff so the susp...

Hannah discovers another body. This time it is local sheriff. This series in all honesty is starting to bug me. Mainly it is the indecision on Hannah's part of whether to date Norm or Mike. It is getting really old.

These books get better and better. I knew who the killer was for about half the book but I still enjoyed it. These books are so simple and delightful to read. I could go for less froo-froo from everyone in town. There is no way everyone is so sugary sweet all the time. However I believe Hannah should become a detective because she is the one figuring it all out. Mike is just a piece of eye candy that I think should be pushed out. He's no fun and I think he's a player! Especially with that little...

This book was terrible. I don’t know if it’s because I read 2 of these books back to back but in this book I noticed so many things that annoyed me. I keep comparing this series to Stephanie Plum which isn’t fair because it’s no where near on the same level as the Plum books. But in this series there is a “love triangle” or something like it. She is openly dating 2 men. Which to me isn’t a big deal. Do what makes you happy. But it annoys me so much that she keeps thinking one of them is going to...

Among the few active series of cozy mysteries I'm following, this one, and to be more precise, this book, is the one who steps up a gear. Indeed, no other books I've read had the guts to kill off the town Sheriff. To sum it up, Sheriff Grant is murdered and the heroine, Hannah's brother-in-law is suspected due to lack of alibi. He's suspended from work, by Hannah's beau, Mike. This is interesting. It would translate well to the screen as a television movie. Or as an animated series, if it were

All right--I really can't stand Mike. All girls must have their idiotic tendencies. That one must be Hannah's. Aside from that, this mystery/story was a lot more fun for me to follow than the previous book. Especially because there were two mysteries--the murder as well as the secret ingredient to the cupcakes. Mmm--I wished I could have been sampling all of the attempts, though. Yum! And the climax at the end was a lot of fun--the intensity of it any way. I love page-turners! And the best thing...

I am enjoying this series!! I love Hannah

The killer was pretty obvious. I'm starting to not like either of Hannah's men. Norman lacks fire and Mike doesn't support Hannah like he should. He started to do better in book 4, but he resorted back to an idiot in this book. If he spent more time with Hanna then perhaps she wouldn't almost get herself killed all the time. Anyway, I'm kind of tired of the fact that Bill and Mike are apparently not intelligent enough to solve a case. The cops should get one eventually, and not because Hannah ha...

Okay, I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker for a cozy mystery series. You give me someone with a fluffy occupation stumbling onto a mystery where she or he manage to outwit the police and solve the crime and I’m all in. Be they housewives, mystery bookstore owners, southern sisters, or small town bakers I love them. I have an infinite ability to suspend disbelief.I stumbled upon the Hannah Swensen mystery just recently. I know they’ve been around forever and that’s good for me because there’s a nice big

This was one of the books that one of the Hallmark Hannah movies was based on. I was glad that the killer was a different one. I'm enjoying reading these in order now and seeing just when certain people came into the timeline (or left it). Obviously, I didn't guess the killer, since I had it in my mind who the killer was in the movie. There were tons of great-sounding recipes as always. I'll be glad to return to Lake Eden again soon to pick up where I left off.

Okay if Hannah doesn't get a cell phone in the next book I'm going to kill her myself. I enjoy these books but I need Hannah to start growing a bit as a character. Also I could solve her relationship problem pretty easily; a polyamorous relationship,but that's just me.

Fudge Cupcakes, yummmm! You can't say no to fudge! And you can't say no to another Hannah Swensen mystery, it has more recipes! And....another murder case. In this book, the sheriff of Lake Eden was murdered was munching on Hannah's attempted fudge cupcakes with one special ingredient. Along the way a deputy in the sheriff's department is a suspect, and Hannah once again is taking matters into her own hands to gather clues to who the real possible killer is.This one was read at the perfect time

This one was quick and fun. Although where was Norman? Still these are quick easy reads I’m enjoying, and I plan to finish the series as much as I can.

Find this review, plus more, on my blog: Booklikes OR Blogger Basic InfoFormat: Audio Pages/Length: n/aGenre: Cozy Mystery Reason For Reading: Like the series At A GlanceLove Triangle/Insta Love/Obsession?: NoCliff Hanger: NoTriggers: n/aRating: 3.5 starsScore SheetAll out of tenCover: 7Plot: 6Characters: 7World Building: 6Flow: 7Series Congruity: 8Writing: 7Ending: 7Total: 7In DepthBest Part: Michelle stuck around. Worst Part: Knew the killer pretty early on. Thoughts Had: Poor Bill. Conclusi...

I'm going to make this short. I'm really enjoying the Hannah Swenson novels. I love Joanne Fluke's flair for writing and how she makes the characters engaging.My issue is thus... The last three books I was able to guess the killer from very early on. However, I don't really mind so much. Unlike other murder mysteries, there's other things going on in the book. As mentioned, the characters are engaging and you can't help but enjoy reading about them and their life in their small town.My second an...

Insert index finger in mouth and apply pressure to back of throat and initiate gag reflex. Quickly remove finger and commence barfing. That is the feeling conjured up in me every time the author refers to Hannah's obsessive mooning over Mike. These scenes are really getting quite Vomitrocious! (to quote Muffy Crosswire a favorite character on Marc Brown's popular children's PBS series Arthur.To quote the character Hannah from Fudge Cupcake Murder, "Kissing Mike was like flirting with fire, pass...

Finally another Hannah Swensen story got translated into Estonian and I am very happy about it! I am having a bit of a reading slump but Fluke's cozy mystery stories are always a fun and light change of pace that I read happily even in the gravest of slumps... 😋I knew who the killer was about halfway through the book and no surprise came from that... But I am perplexed by Hannah's relationships with Norman and Mike... 🤯 And of course her usual lack of subtlety when dealing with murderers face-to...

It has recipes in it, recipes that I can't eat as I am not to have sugar. They are always baking and eating in this book but everyone seems well. No one is sick with diabetes, obesity and congestive heart failure. The only one whose diet is restricted is Moishe the cat, he is supposed to be eating senior food and taking vitamins. He hates it and protests mightily. I hear you Moishe. So someone gets murdered in this book, obviously. Hannah, our small town's baker and amateur sleuth, is soon chasi...