{"id":19984,"date":"2022-05-06T20:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T00:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=19984"},"modified":"2024-02-05T20:58:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T01:58:28","slug":"strawberry-shortcake-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/19984","title":{"rendered":"Strawberry Shortcake Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strawberry Shortcake Murder<\/a><\/em> (2001) Joanne Fluke<\/a> (Hannah Swensen)<\/p>\n

\"Strawberry<\/a><\/p>\n

It doesn’t seem like 2001 was that long ago, but it was really a different world.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, Mother.\u201d Hannah stretched out the phone cord and walked over to the cupboard that held Moishe\u2019s food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Once the warm-up was complete, Vera used Lucy\u2019s 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.)<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

It was a cute story, with lots of yummy baked goods, and since I got it on sale, I was pleased.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Kensington Books<\/p>\n

Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strawberry Shortcake Murder (2001) Joanne Fluke (Hannah Swensen) It doesn’t seem like 2001 was that long ago, but it was really a different world. \u201cYes, Mother.\u201d Hannah stretched out the phone cord and walked over to the cupboard that held Moishe\u2019s food. Once the warm-up was complete, Vera used Lucy\u2019s mouse to click on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193,190,292,48,24,8],"tags":[656,402,589,590],"class_list":["post-19984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10","category-cozy","category-ebook","category-female","category-food","category-mystery","tag-bakery","tag-baking","tag-hannah-swensen","tag-joanne-fluke"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5ck","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20048,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20048","url_meta":{"origin":19984,"position":0},"title":"Peach Cobbler Murder","author":"Michelle","date":"June 17, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Peach Cobbler Murder (2005) Joanne Fluke (Hannah Swensen) This is the 7th Hannah Swensen book. 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