Hannah Swensen #13
Kensington
March 2010
On Sale: March 1, 2010
Featuring: Hannah Swensen
304 pages ISBN: 0758234899 EAN: 9780758234896 Hardcover Add to Wish List
She’s
done it again! During intermission at the Lake Eden
Combined Charities
talent show, Hannah Swensen, Lake Eden Cookie master and
sometime sleuth,
discovered the body of Professor Bradford Ramsey, the
show’s master
of ceremonies. Swensen was backstage because she had had
appeared
as The Amazing Herb's assistant in the act preceding
intermission.
Not
one of the 300 attendees enjoying coffee and apple
turnovers in the
lobby of the Jordan High auditorium was aware that violence
had erupted
only a few feet away on the darkened stage. It was not
until sixteen
minutes after the second act was scheduled to start that
Detective Mike
Kingston announced that the host of the talent show had
been murdered.
It's
common knowledge that Swensen has assisted the authorities
in solving
a record number of murder cases. When I attempted to
interview
her at The Cookie Jar, Swensen's bakery and coffee shop
in Lake Eden,
she said, "Of course I'll help the sheriff's
department in any
way I can, but I prefer to leave crime solving to the
professionals.”
I
contacted Joanne Fluke, author of the NY Times bestselling
mystery series
featuring Hannah Swensen, and asked her if Hannah was going
to refrain
from investigating this latest homicide. When she
finished laughing,
Fluke said that she is already writing about Hannah's
involvement in
Apple Turnover Murder, to be released in hardcover by
Kensington
Books in March 2010. Fluke’s books are well known for
their
delicious recipes (Apple Turnover
Murder has 21!) and she confided that one of
Hannah's apple turnovers
was found at the murder scene.
Joanne
Fluke has been writing about Hannah Swensen since her
culinary mystery
series debuted in 1999. With delectable titles like
Cream Puff
Murder, Key Lime Pie Murder, and Fudge Cupcake
Murder,
Fluke may have to add warning labels to the covers of her
books for
anyone who’s on a diet.