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Strawberry Shortcake Murder

Friday, May 6, 2022

Strawberry Shortcake Murder (2001) Joanne Fluke (Hannah Swensen)

Strawberry Shortcake Murder

It doesn’t seem like 2001 was that long ago, but it was really a different world.

“Yes, Mother.” Hannah stretched out the phone cord and walked over to the cupboard that held Moishe’s food.

Once the warm-up was complete, Vera used Lucy’s mouse to click on the Internet provider icon. There was the sound of a dial tone and the number was dialed automatically with a series of musical beeps. There was a burst of static and another few beeps as Vera was connected.

This is the second Hannah Swensen book. I read a novella collection and decided to pick up the second book, as it’s a long running series and I didn’t want all the backstory and whatever that tends to come with a first book in a long running series. (I almost never Robert Parker’s Godwulf Manuscript. Spenser is an entirely different characters.)

The big draw for me with this book is that the main character is a baker who runs her own cookie / dessert shop. And the story pokes fun at the fact that it’s a small town with an already disconcertingly large number of murders.

It was a cute story, with lots of yummy baked goods, and since I got it on sale, I was pleased.

Publisher: Kensington Books

Rating: 7/10

 

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