This review contains complaining. You've be fairly warned.Here's the one thing that drives me absolutely bananas about Joanne Fluke's cookie-baking Minnesotan heroine Hannah Swensen: She nitpicks about other people's grammar during conversations. I know that Hannah's background is of a potential MA in English before her dad dies and she goes home to Lake Eden to open her cookie business, but enough is enough. I'm a book editor and I am paid to fix bad grammar, but I don't get distracted by inner...

This book irritated me so much when I read it several years ago that I had wiped from my memory. It wasn't until I looked through my bookshelves that I realized I had forgotten to add it. Peach Cobbler Murder is my first from the Hannah Swensen series, and very likely my last. Usually I would give the earlier books a chance when I realize that I had picked up a later book in the series by mistake, but not here; if the 7th book was so hard to bear, what would the 1st be like, when the writing and...

For the most part these books are light, enjoyable reads but I'm really starting to get frustrated with the main character, Hannah. The love triangle with Hannah/Norman/Mike that has been going on for a year and 7 books now is really starting to become irritating. The fact that Norman and Mike get along so well, while both dating the same girl just isn't believable anymore. Not to mention the fact that Hannah freaks out every time Norman or Mike even glance at other women, yet here she is dating...

I think I'm done with this series for good. Hannah is the most condescending and unlikeable heroine I can think of. To start off, the murder was so formulaic and the murderer was obvious from before the book even started. Hannah's mother is dating a man who Hannah has a bad feeling about. As soon as I read that I knew it wouldn't be long before he either committed murder or was murdered himself. Also, Hannah is just too unlikeable of a character for me to care about what happens to her. In this

This is the fourth or fifth book in this series I've read, but I don't think I'll read another. I've never come across a more annoying main character. She has been stringing two guys along for well over a year, yet gets angry when one of them spends time with another woman. One of the guys arranges to have the heater in her truck fixed for her and she is busy trying not to get angry about it! She comes across as so superior to everyone around her and apparently the local police department are so...

Hannah Swensen is superwoman in an apron. What an ending! Wow! I did not see that coming. This book was a great read. Had it figured out about two thirds of the way through.... still a great read. These books get better and better as I read them. Hannah still needs to become a cop, I swear she could run Lake Eden and The Cookie Jar at the same time.

Enjoying this series. The love triangle is getting a little tiresome, but the plots are good. I am choking to continue reading them.

I don't often read cozy mysteries with a dessert theme because it always makes me crave food I can't eat (I'm on a limited sugar/carb restricted diet for medical reasons). But I make an exception for the Hannah Swensen series. There might be a lot of cookie-talk in the books because Hannah owns a bakery...but the series is so fun to read, that I don't mind reading about all the foods I can't have. Most of the recipes included in the books are desserts (I've made a few yummy selections for my fam...

"A lock is only as good as the door." Meet (again) Hanna Swensen: a thirty-something single woman who owns a cookie shop and has the infuriating habit of finding bodies like they were pennies. This time, she really has the best intentions when, being a friendly neighbour towards the owner of the rival bakery on the other side of the road (who threatens to steal not only her business, but also her man - one of them, anyway) she decides to enter her shop in the middle of the night only to find her...

Another great book by Joanne Fluke. I absolutely love this series. The only downside is the Hannah love triangle. I just wish she'd marry Norman already. This book is another example of why Mike is a jerk.

I love and hate these books. I hate the love triangle but love Lake Eden. I think of quitting the series but I am about to buy the next. Hannah and I have such a dysfunctional relationship.

The good news is that Lisa is getting married. The bad news is that a competing bakeshop has opened near Hannah’s shop and stolen most of her customers. Hannah is fearful that if her regulars don’t return, she will have to close. But there is worse news to come. A deceitful person is out to scam someone close to Hannah, and she puts herself in harm’s way. While the plot may be predictable - readers know that Hannah won’t die no matter what fix she finds herself in - the book does end with a bit

Fluke steps up the series with Peach Cobbler Murder by focusing on core characters, tying up some loose ends from previous books, showing the power of strong and close relationships and setting what is hopefully the final competition between Mike and Norman for Hannah's heart.The recipes sound delicious (but may be getting to be too strong of a theme in each book) and are integrating into the story more closely. Between these books and The Great British Baking Show, I am constantly surrounded by...

It’s February in cold, snowy Minnesota. Hannah is back with her cat Moisha (who is being recruited to hunt all the mice in town in exchange for bags of frozen shrimp—I laughed so hard at these scenes), and unfortunately, there’s a new bakery in town, too, courtesy of Shauna Lee, Hannah’s rival for Mike’s affections. This one was quite hilarious, with plenty of jealousy over whose baked goods were superior, real life worries over what to do when it looks like a small town can’t support two simila...

This book is included in Hallmark’s Murder She Baked TV series Movies - Just Deserts, Deadly Receipt, Peach Cobbler, Plum Pudding, Chocolate Chip CookieThe Cookie Jar, Hannah Swensen’s bakery in Lake Eden, Minnesota. A competor store opens, Quinn sister owners are found shot to death in the store. Hannah needs to prove she was not responsible & find the murderer.Georgia Peaches is “their sweet-as-pie“ crime -and now it's up to Hannah to track down whoever had the “right ingredients” to whip u

The only reason I'm marking this a 2 starrer is because I didn't expect anything better. I've begun to realize I don't really like Hannah. She's a hypocrite and a jerk and a really annoying grammar-nazi. I like Andrea. It seems half the time Hannah knows anything because Andrea called someone and got the goods on them. But she's not in this book much. Oh no, we need to spend pages and pages on Moishe being a good mouser or some such crap. I'm a cat owner and love my cat to pieces, but he's a cat...

I tried to resist writing a review for this book as I knew it would only come out as a long rant. Unfortunately, I lost the battle with myself. Especially when I decided to read what other Goodreads members have said about this book.Let me start by saying that I've been with the series since the beginning. Up until Fudge Cupcake Murder I was 100% enjoying the series.Despite the fact that other readers are hating Hannah, I still like her very much. Although after Peach Cobbler Murder, I'm thoroug...

Find this review, plus more, on my blog: Booklikes OR Blogger Basic InfoFormat: Audio Pages/Length: n/aGenre: Cozy mysteryReason For Reading: Idk right now!At A GlanceLove Triangle/Insta Love/Obsession?: Training. Cliff Hanger: NoTriggers: n/aRating: 2.5 stars Score SheetAll out of tenCover: 6Plot: 6Characters: 1World Building: 5Flow: 5Series Congruity: 7Writing: 7Ending: 6Total: 5In DepthBest Part: Hannah's issues. Worst Part: Low life taking the dead's shit! Thoughts Had: How petty. Conclusi...

I don't know why I keep reading books from this series. The character Hannah is a goody and a player (she has two boyfriends!) and everyone loves her. Doesn't sound very realistic to me. Give me a character who has some attitude. And I'm confused as to why no one in the books weights a few hundred pounds because all they do is eat cookies! In this book, a new bakery opens up and it taking all of Hannah's business. And then the person who runs the shop dies, and while the description of the book

I really enjoyed this one. On to the next soon.