Book Review: Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne Fluke

Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne Fluke
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Plum Pudding Murder and the murder mystery at a Christmas Tree Farm made me hungry for the recipes in this book. What I was not expecting was Moishe being an attack cat and just attacking Hannah's Christmas Tree, Hannah dating two men, and the two men actually liking each other. Shocking, I know, but that's not all happening in this book.

The book is about Hannah working at the Cookie Jar and trying out new recipes, as usual. Then, her mother comes in and asks if she could spy on her friend Carrie, Norman's mother. Carrie has been acting very weird lately, and she wants to know why. So she helps out, even though she didn't want to at first. But then during a late date or something like that Norman asks Hannah to spy on her mother, even though she didn't want to in the beginning. So Hannah agrees, and with Mike's help, she finds out why Norman's mother was very weird and odd--she was dating a man named Earl and Earl wants to marry her. Awe, that was sooo cute!!!

The mystery part of the book was about a man named Larry Jaeger and how he was murdered in his house at the Crazy Elf Tree Farm. While Hannah is solving the case (okay and helping her BF Mike), she learns that Mr. Jaeger isn't a really good businessman. He put out a sign that said that he was going to sell the tree at half cost or something like that, and he tells Hannah that he saw it on a TV Commercial once and he kept it for all of his businesses. During the murder and all that is happening, she and her mother go to a business class, and the teacher, Mrs. Whiting, teaches the class and gives them homework about bad businesses. Who would've thought that one of the bad business homework she gave out was about Larry Jaeger himself?

The twist was that Mrs. Whiting was Larry Jaeger's ex-wife, and she was the one who killed her father and then when she finally came to Lake Eden, that's when she came to the Christmas Tree farm one day, walked in, killed him, and shot the big screen tv three times. Which was weird but okay queen, pop off. When Hannah connected all the clues after she went to her sister's performance, that's when Mrs. Whiting revealed herself and tried to kill Hannah, but that's to Mike's quick thinking, Mrs. Whiting was merked and Hannah lived to cook her Christmas Eve dinner--which, by reading the recipes sounds really, really good.

Well, it was.

Until her sister invites her ex Bradford Ramsey over.

Oof.

I really liked this one, I enjoyed it, the romance and the mystery was really well written, and I now need to watch the movie because this one was really good and I enjoyed myself.

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