Cream puff murder : a Hannah Swensen mystery with recipes

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

Cream puff murder : a Hannah Swensen mystery with recipes

Author:

Fluke, Joanne, 1943-

ISBN:

9781410413062

Publication Information:

Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2009.

Physical Description:

469 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

Series title(s):

Thorndike Press large print mystery series.

Summary:

With the launch party for her mother's novel around the corner, bakery owner Hannah Swensen has a dress to fit into and a date with her sister at Lake Eden's new health club, Heavenly Bodies. Dragging herself out of bed on a frigid morning for exercise is bad enough. Discovering a dead body in the gym's jacuzzi? Okay, that's worse. Nor does it help that there's a plate of The Cookie Jar's cream puffs garnishing the murder scene.

Personal Subject:

Swensen, Hannah (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Swensen, Hannah (Fictitious character)

Subject(s):

Women detectives -- Fiction.

Bakers -- Fiction.

Bakeries -- Fiction.

Large type books.

Minnesota -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Minnesota -- Fiction.

Minnesota

Genre:

Large type books.

Detective and mystery fiction

Fiction

Mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery stories.

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
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Author Notes

Joanne Fluke was born in Swanville, Minnesota in 1943. While pursuing her writing career, she worked as a public school teacher, a psychologist, a musician, a private detective's assistant, a secretary, a short order cook, a florist's assistant, a caterer and party planner, a computer consultant, a production assistant on a TV quiz show, and half of a screenwriting team with her husband.

She writes the Hannah Swensen Mystery series which includes original family recipes for baking. Her other works include The Stepchild, Vengeance Is Mine, Video Kill, Dead Giveaway, and Deadly Memories. In 2014, her title's Blackberry Pie Murder and Double Fudge Brownie Murder made The New York Times Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Booklist Review

It was inevitable that Hannah Swensen's sweet lifestyle was going to catch up with her. That time has come in this eleventh entertaining cozy featuring the cookie baker: she must go on a diet. Hannah starts working out at a health club and vows to stop tasting the scrumptious treats she prepares every day for the Cookie Jar bakery in Lake Eden, Minnesota. Stress mounts when Hannah discovers the body of a fitness instructor floating in her club's Jacuzzi. The acerbic trainer was universally loathed by women and liked by most men (including the staff of the local police department) for her flirtatious ways. In a reversal of the usual procedure, this time one of Hannah's boyfriends, Detective Mike Kingston, recruits her help in solving the mystery, as he and his fellow cops are potential suspects. Hannah and her other boyfriend, dentist Norman, go to work to solve the mystery with dubious and conflicting suggestions from all of the real detectives. As usual, Fluke intersperses delectable recipes and reveals plenty of new personal details about her eccentric and likable cast of characters.--Coon, Judy Copyright 2009 Booklist