Stop fussing! So I have just read two in a row of the same genre by the same author. So what? I enjoyed the first one - I had to see if they held up.
This time the primary murder victim is the high school basketball coach, who totally deserves to be murdered, but not for the reason for which he is murdered. Follow that? He is an all-round nasty guy who beats his wife, but that doesn't get him killed. The secondary victim also deserves to die - not a nice lady.
Hannah's relationship with the police detectives is a little beyond the usual, the junior detective is her brother-in-law and the senior detective is her boyfriend. And anybody in their little Minnesota town will do anything for cookies. I suppose that if I wanted strictly plausible, I would be reading true crime instead of cozy mysteries.
A minor irritant - this really is picky - the titles have absolutely nothing to do with the content of the story. Hannah is a professional cookie maker, so of course she is baking cookies. The title recipe is by no means the only one in the book. They do sound good, I may have to sit down and transcribe them for actual use. For me transcription will be necessary because I have them on my Kindle and I like to see the entire recipe on one sheet when I cook.
Another thing to consider, in this book she kills the high school basketball coach, and the secondary murder victim in book one was a busted up former high school football hero. Does this point to some standing bias against high school athletics? Hard to say at this point, I guess I will have to read another.
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