About this title: 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 unravelling the ...
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First edition. FULL Number Line First Edition
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780758210210ISBN:0758210213
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine has several light creases Covers are glossy with faint shelf wear Edgeds are not worn Text is CLEAN and tight A SMOKE FREE book. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 343 p. Hannah Swensen Mysteries (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 343 p. Hannah Swensen Mysteries (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Kensington
Date Published: 3/1/2008
ISBN-13:9780758210203ISBN:0758210205
Description: New. Hardback w/ DJ. You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again! ! ! ! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Kensington
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780758210210ISBN:0758210213
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 343 p. Hannah Swensen Mysteries (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 343 p. Hannah Swensen Mysteries (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 343 p. Hannah Swensen Mysteries (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Kensington Books, New York
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780758210203ISBN:0758210205
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. Mystery. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A Hannah Swensen Mystery with Recipes. A long-lost uncle comes to a big family gathering and is the hit of the party. The next day he is found murdered, next to the carrot cake, with an ixe pick in his chest! Find out what happened! This book is in fine condition and appears unread. The dust jacket is in near fine condition with a little bit of wear at the corners. read more
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 343 p. Hannah Swensen Mysteries (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 343 p. Hannah Swensen Mysteries (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
"The book was not terribly interesting other than the recipes. Although I went quite wrong in getting the audiobook. Even the recipes that sounded good to me were too much of a pain to try and write down from the recording. And, I cannot find them anywhere online. The recipes were the reason this book got 2 stars.
The story telling was unimpressive and there was not much of a mystery to the story. Too easy to figure out."
"Hannah Swenson owns and operates the Cookie Jar, a small bakery in a tiny town called Lake Eden, Minnesota. She also solves mysteries. Carrot Cake Murder is about as light and fluffy as Hannah's Lemon Fluff Jell-O (recipe on page 174). Everybody is really, really nice in Lake Eden...even the bad guys and murderers are more quirky and annoying than downright unpleasant. Hannah herself is squeaky clean--she juggles two boyfriends, but if she does anything more than bake cookies for them and kiss a little, we never know.
If you like cats and cookies, if you don't like bad language or graphic sex, this is the book for you. Oh, and although I don't bake, I bet the recipes scattered throughout the book (there are 21) are phenomenal. I met Joanne Fluke when she was being driven around town by an author escort to sign stock in bookstores, and she came armed with a gift of the most divine--almost literally divine, mind you--chocolate chip cookies I've ever tasted in my life."
"At first, in beginning to read the series, one of the "carrots" for me was wanting to see which of Hannah's two boyfriends she would marry, why, and how the one left out would take his fate. What is really surprising to me, though, after having read and digested, is that I realize I'm hoping Hannah will stay single. She is a unique character on her own, and the evolving friendships with Mike and Norm continue to interest me."
"Hannah Swenson has been one of my favorite female-sleuths. I say 'has' because up until this book I really enjoyed the series. But Carrot Cake Murder didn't quite jell for me. I felt like everything was forced, like author Joanne Fluke was rushed for time to get this book out. At times I felt like I was reading a play, rather than a novel. There was so much dialog going on. I suppose because the setting is a family reunion and there are quite a few more characters than usual. And it didn't make sense to me that Hannah's sisters AND her mother are starting to get involved in her 'cases'.
I would also like to see a resolution to the Hannah/Norman/Mike relationship. I vote for Norman!
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