Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

Name: Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.77 (150 reviews)
Author: Joanne Fluke
ISBN: 9781428198791

Author: Joanne Fluke

Series: Hannah Swensen Mysteries #1

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/26/2007

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Cozy, Private Investigators

Synopsis

DISCOVER THE DELICIOUS MYSTERY THAT STARTED IT ALL!

No one cooks up a delectable, suspense-filled mystery quite like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Fluke’s dessert-baking, red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks, and whose penchant for solving crimes—one delicious clue at a time—has made her a bestselling favorite.
And it all began on these pages, with a bakery, a murder, and some suddenly scandalous chocolate-chip crunchies.

Featuring mouthwatering recipes, the very first Hannah Swensen mystery is sure to have readers coming back for seconds …

Hannah already has her hands full trying to dodge her mother’s attempts to marry her off while running The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden’s most popular bakery. But once Ron LaSalle, the beloved delivery man from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery with Hannah’s famous Chocolate
Chip Crunchies scattered around him, her life just can’t get any worse. Determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, she sets out to track down a killer. But if she doesn’t watch her back, Hannah’s sweet life may get burned to a crisp.

“A cleverly plotted cozy full of appealing characters and delicious cookie recipes.”—Publishers Weekly

About Joanne Fluke

American author Joanne Fluke has written several works using pen names. Her given, actual name, is Joanne Gibson Fischmann, born in 1943 in Swanvile, Minnesota. Under pen name, Joanne Fluke, she is most recognized for her mystery series, Hannah Swensen, based around a small town bakery. Five Hallmark Channel movies have been made from Fluke's Swensen series. She has written under the other pseudonyms of John Fischer, R. J. Fischer, Jo Gibson, Chris Hunter, Gina Jackson and Kathryn Kirkwood.

Fluke attended St. Cloud State University, and earned a B.A. Degree in psychology in 1973 from California State University. She had several second jobs while she worked at building her writing career, but her most important titles were mother, wife and homemaker. She lives in Southern California with her television writer husband, Ruel E. Fischmann, her children and step-children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on November 03, 2017

Fantastic new series... and now they have a TV series with Alison Sweeney. Nice! It was one of the first cozies I read with recipes and I had to test one or two out. :) More to come on this series... I'm anxious to finish all 20+ books!......more

Goodreads review by Holly on January 13, 2023

I enjoy these types of fluffy cozy mysteries. The Cookie Jar setting was fun and included lots of cookie recipes too. Enjoyed the character of Hannah Swensen and her snooping ways. The small town setting of Lake Eden was perfect. Hannah's orange cat, Moishe added another cozy addition. The mystery is......more

Goodreads review by Kate on June 21, 2007

Is it difficult reading? No. Are the characters the best characters I've ever read? No. But what this series does have going for it is that all the books are a fun, light read. You could probably start reading any of these books as your first and you would have no trouble understanding the character......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on September 15, 2009

I should not have read other reviews of this book, before I did so I was reading along with only a slight nagging annoyance that I couldn't quite put my finger on. I'm not finished yet, but I will only be skimming the last 100 pages in order to find out who done it, I definitely won't be wasting my......more

Goodreads review by ☾❀Miriam✩ on April 16, 2019

"Solving crimes certainly wasn’t as easy as they made it seem in the movies." Hannah runs a cookie shop in a small town, and her main sources of worry are her mother, who constantly tries to match her with any widowed/divorced man in town, and her younger sister, who takes advantage of her state of......more