A visiting celebrity baker is cut down in the kitchen in the New York Times-bestselling series: “A delightful confection.”—Library Journal Preparations are under way for Lake Eden, Minnesota’s annual Winter Carnival—and Hannah Swensen will be extra busy at her shop, The Cookie Jar. Too bad the honor of creating the official Winter Carnival cake went to famous lifestyle maven Connie Mac—a … lifestyle maven Connie Mac—a half-baked idea, in Hannah’s opinion. She suspects Connie Mac’s sweet cable-TV image is a cover for something more bitter.
Hannah’s suspicions are confirmed when Connie Mac’s limo rolls into town. Turns out America’s “Cooking Sweetheart” is bossy, bad-tempered, and downright domineering. Things finally boil over when Hannah arrives at The Cookie Jar to find the Winter Carnival cake destroyed—and Connie Mac lying dead in her pantry, struck down while eating one of Hannah’s famous blueberry muffins.
Next thing Hannah knows, the police have declared The Cookie Jar’s kitchen crime scene off-limits. She’s a baker without an oven—and the Carnival is right around the corner. Her only alternative is to cook up a plan to save her business—by finding the killer herself…
Includes seven original cookie and dessert recipes for you to try!
“Delicious food descriptions and recipes, warm and familiar characters who grow into real people…a vivid picture of the small lake town and a well-crafted mystery provide the ingredients for yet another tempting feast that should satisfy all fans, old and new.”—Publishers Weekly
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This was another page turner of a book I read in under a day!!! It was very scary, and I couldn’t wait to find out who the killer was!!! Also, I can’t forget about Moishe the cat! He’s so adorable. 🙂 🙂 🙂 I can’t wait to continue this series!!!
I am really enjoying the Hannah Swensen series. This is book three. So if you’re just starting I would go back to the beginning and read “The Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder”. Not because you won’t understand the plot but because it has been fun to watch the relationships between the characters. Hannah owns a bakery/coffee shop and somehow finds dead bodies in her spare time! She has a cat, a real estate agent sister who is married to a deputy with an adorable daughter, a mother who is trying to get her married and she dates both a deputy and a dentist casually which keep things interesting. As an added bonus there are recipes for some of Hannah’s baked goods sprinkled through the book.
I say if you like cozy mysteries-go for it!
Enjoyed reading this book. Good read and good mystery!
I love theses books because they are fun to read.
I own all of here Mystery Series Mysteries. I just love them. I also have made many of her recipes. They taste good and are well written direction and easy to follow the directions. A peak at home the world used to be. Good family values.
Joanne Fluke is always a good read.
Love all of her Bakery books, they just make you want to read and keep on reading!
Enjoyable mystery and many delicious recipes!
And great recipes
Fun
Good story plot!
Great author and wonderful series of characters
I love reading this series! It is an easy fun read!
Always enjoy her books.
Always entertaining, Fluke delivers every time.
Clean, tasty mysteries with good recipes.
Two murderers have been put away. How many can possibly be in one town? Connie Mac a celebrity cooking show host comes to the small town of Lake Eden to kick off the winter festival.
Connie Mac is America’s cooking sweetheart… on camera but off camera she’s a real cow. In only a short time there Connie has mad numerous people mad. So when Connie Mac turns up dead, you could make a cookbook out of the list of Enemies she made in her short time in Lake Eden. Oh and did I mention Connie Mac was found dead in Hannah’s shop The Cookie Jar.
With Hannah’s shop closed down due to the murder, Hannah races to find out who killed Connie Mac.
I’m a just a pinch upset with book number three. I didn’t like how Joanne throw the possibility that a ghost had killed Connie Mac. Just seemed a little to mediocre, childish, possibly corny
For what I didn’t like little Tracey made up for. Because it’s true kids do Say the darnedest things.
Hanna’s complicated love life keeps us reading for more
Yummy read!
Love all Joanne Fluke books. Wish there were more Hannah Swenson books!