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Kate’s 2¢: “The Killer Collective” by Barry Eisler
“The Killer Collective” by Barry Eisler
I enjoyed the story, but I was very glad I couldn’t see the ‘child hurt pornography” she showed the team on her laptop. Insidious.
A few take-aways from the story:
–In some ways, what he’d just learned defied reason. How could something so awful, also contain something so impossibly good?
–The problem was the government; it had already been penetrated.
–Half Japanese and half American had always meant neither.
–We rarely see what we prefer to over-look
–If you live long enough, you gain perspective and, maybe, some self-cntrol.
–security through obscurity
–visualization, verbalization, and mental shadow boxing
–If you want something you’ve never had before, you have to do something you’ve never done before.
–The child is left physically crippled; dominate the body and destroy the soul.
–He’d spread his dreams under her feet…she would find a way to tread softly
It is interesting to read how the various personalities of the characters melded to get the job done, but never lost their own identity.
barryeisler.com
Barry Mark Eisler (born 1964) is a best-selling American novelist. He is the author of two thriller series, the first featuring anti-hero John Rain, a half-Japanese, half-American former soldier turned freelance assassin, and a second featuring black ops soldier Ben Treven. Eisler also writes about politics and language on his blog Heart of the Matter, and at the blogs CHUD, Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, MichaelMoore.com, The Smirking Chimp, and Truthout.
Eisler was born in New Jersey,[1] his father was a wholesale office supplier, and his mother an environmental activist. Eisler graduated from Cornell Law School in 1989.[2][3]
Early career[edit]
After completing law school, Eisler joined the CIA, where he trained for three years afterward and held a covert position with the Directorate of Operations.[3] In 1992, he resigned and joined the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges.[2] In 1994, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to work for the firm’s technology licensing division, then left to work in Japan for Matsushita.[1][2]
In 1999, he returned to the Bay Area to join a startup.[2]
In 2003, he started writing full-time, when he sold the rights to his debut novel, Rain Fall, the first of his series featuring John Rain.[2]
Self-publishing[edit]
Eisler made news in March 2011 when he walked away from a reported half million dollar advance from St. Martin’s Press in order to go the self-publishing route pioneered by his colleague Joe Konrath and others.[4][5] He then took a six-figure deal to publish the seventh John Rain novel, The Detachment (2011), under Amazon Publishing’s Thomas & Mercer mystery imprint.[6]
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The killer collective DB108344
Eisler, Barry. Reading time: 13 hours, 35 minutes.
Read by Jared Zak.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Political Fiction
“When a joint FBI-Seattle Police investigation of an international child pornography ring gets too close to certain powerful people, sex-crimes detective Livia Lone becomes the target of a hit that barely goes awry–a hit that had been offered to John Rain, a retired specialist in “natural causes.” Suspecting the FBI itself was behind the attack, Livia reaches out to former Marine sniper Dox. Together, they assemble an ad hoc group to identify and neutralize the threat. There’s Rain. Rain’s estranged lover, Mossad agent and honeytrap specialist Delilah. And black ops soldiers Ben Treven and Daniel Larison, along with their former commander, SpecOps legend Colonel Scot “Hort” Horton. Moving from Japan to Seattle to DC to Paris, the group fights a series of interlocking conspiracies, each edging closer and closer to the highest levels of the US government. With uncertain loyalties, conflicting agendas, and smoldering romantic entanglements, these operators will have a hard time forming a
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Kate’s 2¢: “Every Vow You Break” byPeter Swanson
“Every Vow You Break” byPeter Swanson
When the nepharious purpose of this island paradise was revealed, it reminded me of “Forty Acres” by Dwayne Alexander Smith. Let’s hope the reality doesn’t follow these two fictional books.
I enjoyed the pace and narrative arc of this story and, of course, cheered when our heroine made it to safety.
Peter Swanson (born May 26, 1968) is an American author, best known for his psychological suspense novels The Kind Worth Killing and Her Every Fear.[1]
His novel Every Vow You Break, was released in March 2021, and his most recent one, Nine Lives, was released in March 2022.[2]
Swanson wrote fiction for ten years before finding an agent who read a short story of his online, leading to the eventual publication of his debut novel The Girl With a Clock for a Heart.[3] He has also written short stories and poetry.[4]
Swanson lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. He is married and has a cat.[5]
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Every vow you break: a novel DB108418
Swanson, Peter. Reading time: 7 hours, 42 minutes.
Read by Karissa Vacker.
Suspense Fiction
Psychological Fiction
“A bride’s dream honeymoon becomes a nightmare when a man with whom she’s had a regrettable one-night stand shows up in this electrifying psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of Eight Perfect Murders. Abigail Baskin never thought she’d fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. He’s a good guy, stable, level-headed, kind–a refreshing twist from her previous relationships. But right before the wedding, Abigail has a drunken one-night stand on her bachelorette weekend. She puts the incident–and the sexy guy who wouldn’t give her his real name–out of her mind, and now believes she wants to be with Bruce for the rest of her life. Then the mysterious stranger suddenly appears–and Abigail’s future life and happiness are turned upside down. He insists that their passionate night was the beginning of something much, much more. Something special. Something real–and he’s tracked her down to prove it. Does she tell Bruce and ruin their idyllic honeymoon–and possib
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By Kate Chamberlin
Horrific storm surges
Urgent evacuations
Rations stock-piled
Hurricane, 2022 acrostic
By Kate Chamberlin
Horrific storm surges
Urgent evacuations
Rations stock-piled
Radios with fresh batteries
Independent living shelter in place
Canine reliefs wet and windy
Anxious families and friends
Night winds howl
Enormous mess in Ian’s wake.
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Independent living shelter in place
Canine reliefs wet and windy
Anxious families and friends
Night winds howl
Enormous mess in Ian’s wake.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Ancestor trouble: a reckoning and a reconciliation” by Maud Newton
“Ancestor trouble: a reckoning and a reconciliation” by Maud Newton
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
As you can see, by the more than a few take-aways, I was taken by this biography and the research Maud Newton did:
— The older I get, the more I search backwards.
–Her Mother was not raised religious, but when it came it was swift and feverish.
— My parents’ divorce, but their union lives on in me.
— families need not be bound by blood.
— Genealogy is often traced through DNA testing. It’s difficult to repair inter-generational trauma.
— The Indians of Wounded Knee died twice, once at the end of a gun; then by the pen (Their history is altered or altogether lost).
— To some degree, we re-enact what we experience unfolding in our childhoods. We recreate traumatic dynamics from our early lives.
— Psychological heredity may be possible through unconscious family loyalty; a kind of anniversary syndrome.
— Personality flows from heredity factors that are arranged at the time of conception.
— The Humeral System: blood is a sanguine, cheerful temperament, flam was lemmatical and steady type; yellow bile was the chloric, spontaneous, energetic; black bily was the melancholy, anxious, depressive.
— The genes we inherited from our ancestors have a lot to do with the odors our bodies give off.
— Mindful meditation can expose sudden unexpected feelings.
— To understand ourselves, we need to understand our ancestors.
— I was drawn to my ancestors in a spiritual realm.
From MaudNewton.com
Rebecca “Maud” Newton is a writer, critic, and former lawyer born in Dallas, Texas in 1971. She was raised in Miami, Florida.
Newton was born in Dallas and raised in a fundamentalist household in Miami by an evangelical mother and racist father. She attended college and law school at the University of Florida.
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Ancestor trouble: a reckoning and a reconciliation DB108855
Newton, Maud. Reading time: 11 hours, 20 minutes.
Read by Catherine Taber.
Biography
“Maud Newton’s ancestors have vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother’s father, who came of age in Texas during the Great Depression, was said to have married thirteen times and been shot by one of his wives. Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook and died in an institution. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated through Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. Maud’s father, an aerospace engineer turned lawyer, was an educated man who extolled the virtues of slavery and obsessed over the “purity” of his family bloodline, which he traced back to the Revolutionary War. He tried in vain to control Maud’s mother, a whirlwind of charisma and passion given to feverish projects: thirty rescue cats, and a church in the family’s living room where she performed exorcisms. Their divorce, when it came, was a relief. Still, the meeting of her parents’ lines in Maud inspired an anxiety that she couldn’t avoid.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The Old Man” by Thomas Perry
“The Old Man” by Thomas Perry
I enjoyed this book. It isn’t often that I’ll stay with a story, taking brief snack and bathroom breaks, straight through until the tale has been told. The narrative arc changes with new situations, locations, and people. You know the story won’t be done until all the false passports hve been used. The characters’ back stories are artfully woven into the narrative, so I came to care about them.
Here are a few take-outs:
— He woke up one morning and realized the conditions he’d been accustomed to seeing as permanent, had changed.
— His dogs, Dave and Carol, taught him that each day was to be greeted with joy and intense interest.
— Once the attacked started, it would be loud and fast.
— Tonight, so manyyears later, taking back the money seemed like a story someone had told him.
— The predicament he had created for himself when he was young, had made him aware that life was precious…A human being who got up under his own power, saw the sun, and had moved and had food to eat, was a very lucky animal.
— Once you run, there isn’t any possibility of not running.
— He was old like a seven-foot rattle snake was old.
— The things that didn’t seem right, often weren’t.
— Predators would appear after you’ve gotten tired of looking.
Peter Berkrot did a great job of reading this story for the NLS.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Perry was born in Tonawanda, New York, August 7, 1947. son of Richard (a teacher) and Elizabeth (a teacher)
He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1969 and his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Rochester in 1974.
He has been a laborer, maintenance man, commercial fisherman, weapons mechanic, university administrator and teacher, as well as a television writer and producer (Simon & Simon, 21 Jump Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation). Through January 2020, Perry has published 27 novels. He lives in Southern California with his wife Jo (née Lee) and two children, Alix Elizabeth, Isabel Rose.[4]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The old man DB108946
Perry, Thomas. Reading time: 11 hours, 16 minutes.
Read by Peter Berkrot.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
“To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don’t have multiple driver’s licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run. Thirty-five years ago, as a young hotshot in army intelligence, Chase was sent to Libya to covertly assist a rebel army. When the plan turned sour, Chase reacted according to his own ideas of right and wrong, triggering consequences he could never have anticipated. And someone still wants him dead because of them. Just as he had begun to think himself finally safe, Chase must reawaken his survival instincts to contend with the history he has spent his adult life trying to escape. Armed mercenaries, spectacularly crashed cars, a precarious love interest, and an unforgettable chase scene through the snow-this is lethal p
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Kate’s 2¢: “The lightkeeper’s daughters” by Jean Pendziwol
“The lightkeeper’s daughters” by Jean Pendziwol
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
Thunder Bay in Lake Superior disgorges Charlie’s boat the Wind Dancer and brings back memories of Elizabet and Emily, the lighthouse keepers daughters.
Babies’ bodys are switched, names are swapped, mis-matched parentage and a variety of other dramas unfold when a recalcitrant Morgan does community service at the retirement home where elderly Elizabet resides. As Morgan reads Elizabeth’s father’s lighthouse log friendship and kinship are revealed.
I enjoyed this story, although, it’s taken me a while to figure out who is who.
Jean E. Pendziwol is an award winning Canadian author. Born and raised in northwestern Ontario, she draws on the culture, history and geography of the region for inspiration for her stories. An instant national bestseller,
Jean E. Pendziwol was born in Thunder Bay on Lake Superior and spent much of her childhood aboard her family’s sailboat, exploring the islands and bays of the inland sea. After working as a freelance writer and photographer, she spent several years focusing on raising her three children before publishing her first children’s book. She lives in Ontario, in the shadow of the Nor’Wester Mountains, with her husband, two of her three grown children, a loveable mutt, and three temperamental chickens, who sometimes lay eggs.
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The lightkeeper’s daughters DB108915
Pendziwol, Jean. Reading time: 9 hours, 51 minutes.
Read by Dawn Harvey.
Historical Fiction
“Though her mind is still sharp, Elizabeth’s eyes have failed. No longer able to linger over her beloved books or gaze at the paintings that move her spirit, she fills the void with music and memories of her family, especially her beloved twin sister, Emily. When her late father’s journals are discovered after an accident, the past suddenly becomes all too present. With the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenager performing community service at her senior home, Elizabeth goes through the diaries, a journey through time that brings the two women closer together. Entry by entry, these unlikely friends are drawn deep into a world far removed from their own, to Porphyry Island on Lake Superior, where Elizabeth’s father manned the lighthouse and raised his young family seventy years before. As the words on these musty pages come alive, Elizabeth and Morgan begin to realize that their fates are connected to the isolated island in ways they never dreamed. While the discovery of Morgan’s connect
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Kate’s 2¢: “The Lost Summers of Newport” by Karen S. White
“The Lost Summers of Newport” by Karen S. White
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
Each in her turn, Ellen 1899, Lucky 1957, and Andy, 2019, advance the story until the whole tale is told. I don’t think the Epilogue adds anything to the story and could have been deleted.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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White was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and during her childhood lived in numerous states and also in Venezuela and London, England, where she graduated from The American School in London.[citation needed] She attended college at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Management.[1]
Most of White’s novels are based in the low-country of the southeastern United States. Her first book, In the Shadow of the Moon was a double finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award.[2] The Girl on Legare Street reached The New York Times Best Seller list in November 2009.[3][4] On Folly Beach, published in May 2010, was also a NYT bestseller.[5] White has published 27 novels to date, with the latest book, The Attic on Queen Street, released in November 2021. In addition to her solo work, White has also has co-authored four novels with Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig; the most recent, The Lost Summers of Newport, was released in May 2022.
White is married to Timothy J. White, a US banker, with two children, and resides near Atlanta, Georgia.[6] White is currently published by Berkley, a division of Penguin Random House.[1]
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The Lost Summers of Newport DB108913
White, Karen, (Karen S.). Reading time: 13 hours, 14 minutes.
Read by Lisa Flanagan.
Historical Fiction
“2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America’s most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America’s gilded class–famous for the lavish “summer cottages” of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who still lives in the mansion, Lucia “Lucky” Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion’s ruined boathouse. 1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother John has poured their new money into buying a place among Newport’s elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Black Skies” by Leo J. Maloney
“Black Skies” by Leo J. Maloney
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
There have been so many real Black Hawk helicopter mishaps, killing too many Americann lives, recently, to see any humor in the opening salvo of this story; it’s too real.
The abduction of the Secretary of State presents an interesting dilemma for our heros, adding to the drama.
I thought this story well written and demonstrated how fatigue, desperation, and frustration can lure people into doing things they would not have otherwise done.
From www.leojmaloney.com
Leo J. Maloney is an American Novelist that once served as a Black Ops Contractor. After enduring and surviving numerous missions around the world, Leo finally left the army and began using his experiences as a source of inspiration for his writing career. Leo J. Maloney is best known for the Dan Morgan books.
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Black skies DB108783
Maloney, Leo J. Reading time: 9 hours, 19 minutes.
Read by John Pruden.
Spy Stories
“The Black Ops veteran and “master of the modern spy game” takes listeners inside a global conspiracy to destroy the United States in this military thriller (Mark Sullivan). First, a team of Navy SEALs wiped out in a surprise attack. Then, a motorcade of dignitaries is ambushed-and the US Secretary of State is abducted. Coordinated and flawlessly executed, this is no random act of terror. A vision of evil unprecedented in scope has been triggered . . . The enemy will not stop until the skies over America are black with death and destruction. CIA veterans Dan Morgan and Peter Conley-code names Cobra and Cougar-are America’s last chance at averting an unthinkable scenario of bloodshed . . .” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Show Me the Deadly Deer” by Carolyn Mulford
“Show Me the Deadly Deer” by Carolyn Mulford
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
I enjoyed this story, the drama, intrigue, and red herrings the author sprinkled throughout the narrative arc to come to the murderer. I suspect the discerning reader will spot the perp in the early chapters, though.
About Carolyn Mulford from Amazon:
Carolyn Mulford writes the Show Me mystery series. The books feature a wounded former CIA covert operative, Phoenix Smith, who returns to her hometown to recuperate and relax with a lifelong friend. In Show Me the Murder, Phoenix must adapt her spy skills to help the friend, Annalynn Carr Keyser, discover the truth about her husband’s death–and to survive. In Show Me the Deadly Deer and later books, the two women continue to risk their lives to solve and prevent other murders. Achilles, a Belgian Malinois who flunked out of K-9 training, assists them with the work and with adjusting to personal crises.
In the fifth book, Show Me the Sinister Snowman, a blizzard traps Phoenix and friends in an isolated antebellum mansion with several murder suspects. In a review on Dru’s Book Musings, award-winning book advocate Dru Ann Love said, “I enjoyed the tantalizing trails that the author planted for me in this engrossing drama of suspense and intrigue. The narrative pulled me in immediately … With masterly adept dialogue and a snowbound setting where no one can escape, this drama kept me engaged in all that was happening and entertained as step by step, the plot thickened to a frenetic tempo as the story came to a fitting conclusion. This was a terrific read.”
The first book in the series, Show Me the Murder, received the Missouri Writers’ Guild’s top award, the Walter Williams Major Work Award, in April 2014. The third book, Show Me the Gold, received the Guild’s Best Book Award in 2015.
Carolyn also writes historical fiction for tweens and teens. The Historical Novels Society’s newsletter called Thunder Beneath My Feet “a charming novel with a strong historical setting. The landscape, characters, and manners of speech all set the tone perfectly.” The story takes place during the devastating New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812. The Missouri Writers’ Guild gave it third place in its 2016 Major Work contest. Carolyn’s first novel, The Feedsack Dress, became Missouri’s Great Read at the 2009 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Carolyn grew up on a farm near Kirksville, Missouri, and earned an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia. There she became fascinated by other cultures and addicted to travel. That interest led her to visit 75 countries and work as a writer and editor on four continents. Her jobs included editing a United Nations magazine in Vienna, Austria, and a national service-learning magazine in Washington, D.C. As a freelancer, she wrote hundreds of articles and five nonfiction books, edited everything from calendars to conference proceedings, and taught courses and workshops on writing and editing. In 2007 she moved back to Missouri to focus on fiction.
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Show Me the Deadly Deer DBC16420
Mulford, Carolyn. Reading time: 9 hours, 58 minutes.
Read by Mary Beth Broughton.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Ex-spy Phoenix Smith and sheriff Annalynn Keyser work together to solve a murder that has been set up to look like a deer murdered a Missouri farmer. Adult. Some violence and strong language.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Caramel pecan roll murder” by Joanne Fluke
“Caramel pecan roll murder” by Joanne Fluke
Stirred into this murder mystery are lots of mouth-watering recipes to try.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joanne Fischmann (née Gibson, born c. 1943 in Swanville, Minnesota) is an American writer, using the pen name Joanne Fluke. She is best known for her cozy mystery series surrounding a small-town baker, Hannah Swensen. Five movies for the Hallmark Channel have been created based on her Hannah Swensen series.
Other pen names: Joanne Fluke, John Fischer, R.J. Fischer, Jo Gibson, Chris Hunter, Gina Jackson, Kathryn Kirkwood
Fluke was born to Cliff and Esther Gibson in c. 1943 in Swanville, Minnesota.[2] She graduated from Swanville High School in 1960, attended St. Cloud State University and earned a B.A. in psychology, in 1973, from California State University, San Bernardino.[2][3]
Fluke has been baking since she was a child and comes from a long line of bakers.[1]
According to the author’s website, “While pursuing her writing career, Joanne has worked as a public school teacher, a psychologist, a musician, a private detective’s assistant, a corporate, legal, and pharmaceutical secretary, a short-order cook, a florist’s assistant, a caterer and party planner, a computer consultant on a now-defunct operating system, a production assistant on a TV quiz show, half of a screenwriting team with her husband, and a mother, wife, and homemaker.”[7]
Fluke is married to television writer Ruel E. Fischmann[2] and lives with her husband, children and stepchildren in southern California.[7]
Fluke began writing her cozy mystery series starring Hannah Swensen, an “amateur sleuth and baker” in 2000.[1] The idea for the series came out of Fluke’s desire to create a cookbook, and her editor’s suggestion that she write a cozy mystery series.[8] Fluke combined the two ideas by including recipes in the series.[8] Hannah Swensen lives in a small Minnesota town and Fluke feels that the stories are a welcome escape from reality.[9] Library Journal writes that the depiction of the story in Cinnamon Roll Murder is so natural, it is difficult to remember that the characters are fictional.[10] Booklist praised her plot-twists in Devil’s Food Cake Murder.[11] Her book, Wedding Cake Murder, sees Swensen getting married and solving a crime in the same story.[12]
FROM NLS/BARD/LOC:
Caramel pecan murder DB108521
Fluke, Joanne. Reading time: 8 hours, 3 minutes.
Read by Suzanne Toren.
Mystery and Detective Stories
“In this scrumptious cozy mystery from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Joanne Fluke, baker Hannah Swensen is tempted by a high-profile tournament in Lake Eden that quickly turns deadly … Embracing a sweet escape from her usual routine at The Cookie Jar, Hannah gets asked for her help in baking pastries at the local inn for a flashy fishing competition with big prizes and even bigger names. But the fun stops when she spots a run-away boat on the water and, on board, the lifeless body of the event’s renowned celebrity spokesperson … Famed TV show host Sonny Bowman wasn’t humble about his ability to reel in winning catches, and no one knew that better than his tragically overworked sidekick, Joey. Did Joey finally take bloody revenge on his pompous boss–or was Sonny killed by a jealous contestant? With goodies to bake and a mess of fresh challenges mixed into her personal life, it’s either sink or swim as Hannah joins forces with her sister, Andrea, to catch a clever culprit.
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