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    Devil's Food Cake Murder
    Devil's Food Cake Murder
    Devil's Food Cake Murder
    Audiobook9 hours

    Devil's Food Cake Murder

    Written by Joanne Fluke

    Narrated by Suzanne Toren

    4.5/5

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    Hannah Swensen has to admit life is pretty sweet. Things are going well in the romance department and her bakery's delectable confections are selling as fast as she can bake them. Even her good friend Claire is head over heels with her new husband, Reverend Bob Knudson. If only they could find time to take their honeymoon! When Bob's childhood friend, Matthew Walters, comes to town, it seems like divine intervention. Matthew, like Bob, is a Lutheran minister with a stubborn sweet tooth. Since he's on sabbatical, Matthew is happy to fill in for Bob while he and Claire take that long-awaited honeymoon. It sounds like the perfect plan - until Hannah finds Matthew face-down in a plateful of Devil's Food Cake, a single bullet in his head. It will take some sleuthing to sift out the killer, but Hannah is sure of one thing: even the most half-baked murder plot can be oh so deadly...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 22, 2011
    ISBN9781449867447
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    Joanne Fluke

    JOANNE FLUKE is the New York Times bestselling author of the Hannah Swensen mysteries, which include Chocolate Cream Pie Murder, Raspberry Danish Murder, Cinnamon Roll Murder, and the book that started it all, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder. That first installment in the series premiered as Murder, She Baked: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel. Like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Fluke was born and raised in a small town in rural Minnesota, but now lives in Southern California. Please visit her online at www.JoanneFluke.com.

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    • 4/5
      This is an engaging mystery set in the fictitious town of Lake Eden, Minnesota. Our sleuth, Hannah, is caught up in a case of mistaken identity and stolen jewels. Romantically, she wavers between officer Mike and dentist Norman and seems to settle on Norman; but the book ends with a cliffhanger involving Norman's past.

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    • 4/5
      I listened to the Recorded Books audio version of this book. Somehow, the narrator's voice did not seem quite right for Hannah, but the other voices that she did were on the mark. The story revolves around the murder of the visiting Rev. Matthew, who has taken Pastor Bob's place at the Lutheran church while he and Clare go off on their honeymoon. Of course, it's the dead of winter in Minnesota so everyone needs lots of coffee and cookies to stay warm. This is not the book to read if you are dieting or hungry with no access to food. Numerous cookie recipes were read as part of the presentation. Of course, Hannah eventually gets to the bottom of the mystery. The real shocker comes at the very end of the book with an announcement concerning one of the men in Hannah's life. Stay tuned for the next Cooke Jar Mystery to find out what Hannah will do.
    • 3/5
      Rev. Matthew, who grew up in Lake Eden, shows up while on Sabbatical from the seminary where he teaches, offering a perfect opportunity for the Lutheran pastor to finally take his honeymoon. He is filling in quite well when Hannah discovers his corpse in the church office. It's filled with lots of interesting recipes, but the mystery is very predictable. This one probably should receive somewhere around 2.75 stars, but I'll be generous and round it up instead of down.
    • 4/5
      Hannah Swensen is one of my favorite characters but that may be coming to an end because of her contradictory behavior. Hannah can come to all kinds of conclusions when it comes to her business and her impromptu investigations, but when it comes to her lovelife, she is completely incapable of making a decision. This mystery was fun and some of the events that are included, hopefully will carry the series forward, but that is questionable. Love the recipes.
    • 2/5
      While the the recipes sounds delicious as always and the possible mistaken identity angle of this story's murder in Lake Eden is a bit better than the last couple in the series, I'm getting ready to call it a day. I don't think the surprise revelation at the end of this book is going to change the bizarre three way love triangle Fluke has cornered herself into.My suggestion is to either have Norman sell out and move or have Mike promoted to a police force down in the Cities. After all, his homicide closure rate rocks.
    • 3/5
      A stranger, or a near stranger, has come to town. Reverend Matthew Walters spent some time in Lake Eden as a teen and is now back to fill in for the local Lutheran minister while he's on his honeymoon cruise. Something's not quite right, but before Hannah can figure out what it is Reverend Matthew's been murdered. Or was it Reverend Matthew? Perhaps it was his nearly identical cousin Paul, recently released from prison after serving time for a burglary gone wrong. Hannah, along with the usual gang, must determine first of all who was murdered, then why, and finally, by whom.Don't worry, they get the job done.This, the 14th installment in Joanne Fluke's Hannah Swensen (mysteries with recipes!) series, is of a piece with its predecessors. Somehow, it's simultaneously light and fluffy and loaded with fat, sugar, and empty calories. Still, it satisfies. There is the requisite amount of coffee drinking and cookie eating (as always, one marvels at how these people don't all weigh 300 pounds...and how do they ever manage to get any sleep?). In addition to the usual mouth-watering recipes for cookies and cakes and desserts of all sorts this time around there are several recipes for main courses, two of which--Pineapple Casserole and Welsh Rarebit--veer dangerously close to classic white trash fare. But then again, yum.If you like your cozies truly cozy, with no bad language, all violence happening off-stage, and only the merest hints of sex, then Hannah Swensen's the gal for you.
    • 5/5
      This book left us really hanging. Now I can hardly wait for the next book to come out. Probably in 2012.
    • 2/5
      This series just keeps getting worst. Weakest book of the entire group.
    • 2/5
      Well, I've got this series' formula down enough that I can pick the crime and/or villain within the first couple chapters. And the probable plot set-up for the next book is usually presented on the last couple pages. It's time to stop with this series.
    • 2/5
      I feel I'm at the crossroads as to whether I should continue reading the series.Overall, I like the town and the characters, though Hannah (the main character) has been annoying me more and more over the past few books. I can't tell how much is the character and how much is the author. Hannah seems to be getting even more pedantic, with her constant correcting of grammar/facts of other characters (even if she doesn't say it out loud). She's also a bit of a know-it-all, which gets rather tiresome. I'm not sure where the gun rant via Lisa came from. To me it didn't seem to fit the overall story.I was not happy with the ending, for various reasons. I won't spoil things here, but I'm not sure how Fluke will write herself out of this one. To me, it seemed very out of character for both the one character involved and the series.I'd give bonus points to Hannah actually using the phrase "Dominatrix Day", but I'm not entirely convinced Hannah would even know what a dominatrix was...
    • 3/5
      Once again Mike makes a comment about Hannah's peep hole in her door like he had no clue the view is obstructed. It's book 15 and it's been mentioned on more than one occasion. I'm not a fan of the Dr. Bev story line.
    • 4/5
      Once again, Hannah has stumbled on a murder-but who has been murdered, Rev. Matthew or his not so angelic cousin, Paul? And who is the murderer? A minah bird may hold all the answers.Joanne Fluke has once again written a book that will keep you second guessing your second guesses.
    • 3/5
      I loved the earlier Hannah Swansen mysteries, but the last four (Plum Pudding, Devil's Food Cake, , Cream Puff, Apple Turnover) have become problematic. Way too many recipes, way too little mystery. And, frankly, the love interests are getting very rote and her attempt to make them more complex has just made Mike more callous and put Norman in an absurd situation that has no credibility. And her other characters are losing their edge.
    • 4/5
      These books are getting a mite predictable to say the least, but I do still enjoy the characters and I just finished reading a very heavy and long book before I started this one. It was a nice way to to come down from what reading a book like the long one does to me. It's winter in Lake Eden when the action takes place, and it's a cold one. Hannah and her friends are trying to solve the mystery of the murdered parson. Who would murder a parson anyway? And what did Jacob the mynah bird see while he was in his cage at the murder scene? You get it the drift, don't you? These are nice, light mysteries with kind of fun characters. I have enjoyed and still am enjoying this totally "cozy" series.