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Coconut Layer Cake Murder

Written by: Joanne Fluke
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
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Bakery owner Hannah Swensen is leaving Lake Eden to help a friend in sunny California. But an unexpected phone call swiftly brings her back to a cold Minnesota winter...and murder....

When Hannah learns that her sister Michelle's boyfriend, Detective Lonnie Murphy, is the prime suspect in a murder case, she goes straight from a movie studio sound stage to the Los Angeles airport.

Back in frigid Minnesota, she discovers that proving Lonnie's innocence will be harder than figuring out what went wrong with a recipe. Lonnie remembers only parts of the night he went out to a local bar and ended up driving a very impaired woman home. He knows he helped her to her bedroom, but he doesn't recall anything else until he woke up on her couch the following morning. When he went to the bedroom to check on her, he was shocked to discover she was dead.

Hannah doesn't know what to believe - only that exonerating a suspect who can't remember is almost impossible, especially since Lonnie's brother, Detective Rick Murphy, and Lonnie's partner, Chief Detective Mike Kingston, have been taken off the case. Before everything comes crashing down on Lonnie like a heaping slice of coconut layer cake, it'll be up to Hannah to rack up enough clues to toast a flaky killer....

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Not worth the cost even with membership

I’m slowly getting through this book. I’m finding the writing amateurish. I’ve read all of the series but this one had nothing to offer. This was my first time listening to it as opposed to reading. I found the recipes interrupted my train of thought. In the books I could bookmark the recipes to look at later, with audible I fast forward through them knowing that I won’t be bothered to go back and search for them. Leaving the recipe details until the story is finished would make it much better.

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Quality degrading quickly

The story quality is just terrible at this point. Last book, the murder victim of an earlier book was alive and well, now we devote a chapter to how cake is made in the microwave... I think more time was devoted to recipes than actual story.

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Great book if you’re into “horribly boring interspersed with recipes”

Probably the worst book I’ve read/listened to in a long time. I could see having possibly enjoyed it when I was about 12, that’s about the level that the plot line and writing is at. It’s also interspersed with recipes, which is incredibly annoying while listening.

Got four hours in and quit, won’t be finishing the remaining 4 hours and 45 minutes.

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Just. Don't. Bother.

Why do I keep listening to these books? It's obvious Joanne Fluke isn't writing them anymore, and they're getting worse and worse. I've loved reading about Hannah over the years but ever since they started the storyline with her marrying Ross the series has bombed.

The reading of recipes is beyond boring, and the main character is thirty-something but behaves like a senior citizen. How can she possibly be computer illiterate at this age? Why do the two main male characters let Hannah continue to string them along, even after she'd married someone else? And this one has almost an entire chapter on quiche. QUICHE! First they describe how Hannah makes her quiche, in detail, then there's a recipe for how YOU can make quiche. Shoot me now.

So, don't waste your credit. Do yourself a favor and try Diane Mott Davidson instead.

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