Cherry Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke

I might have dropped this series if I weren't reading so many others at the same time. They are rather predictable and fluffy, but the recipes really sound good. And they are predictable and fluffy, which occasionally is a good thing.

Recall from the previous one that Hannah's swains have both proposed and she is stringing them along. So, under pressure from all and sundry, she tells them both "no," but don't listen too closely - she is still stringing both of them along. And a new man comes along in the form of an old college friend, now a movie producer, who is making a film in Lake Eden.

The film has a remarkably uninspired name and a stereotypically vile Hollywood director who, much to everyone's relief, is the murder victim. Like the conductor in the last Donna Leon book, everyone concedes that he is a genius, but knows that he is a truly rotten person.

As usual, Mike forbids Hannah to investigate, but she does so anyway with her team of sisters and little old ladies and the dentist. Her niece and cat get feature roles in the movie, and she may have finally discovered a way to keep the eternally hungry Moishe out of the cat chow.