The book opens with Hannah Swenson admitting to her congregation of friends to tell them that Ross and she were never legally married and that he has gone back to his wife. Plenty of people in town now want Ross dead or to at least deck him a good one for hurting their favorite cookie lady. Hannah is hurting pretty badly and just wants to get on with her life.
But that may be impossible when the local television station wants to run a Minnesota movie marathon and hold a contest for best movie, best actor, etc... Ross was the producer of Crises In Cherrywood the popular movie that aired on television and he could come to town to receive any awards the movie may get.
But that's not what's on Ross's mind. He calls Hannah and demands the $100,000 he left her. However, Hannah placed that money back into his account and unfortunately the bank is closed for repairs from the massive snowstorm that came through. Ross comes by the Cookie Jar and physically threatens Hannah if she doesn't' get the money. Mike puts a guard on Hannah at all times in order to keep her safe.
They plan on trapping Ross at the bank on Monday when it opens by having him come in to sign a withdrawal slip and by telling him that it will take the bank manager that long to get the money there. But Ross doesn't show up. Where could he be? Did someone finally kill him and who? There's a whole town of suspects plus why did he need that money so badly? He says it was to give to his wife to get a divorce, but that doesn't ring true.
As usual, Fluke has written a delightful mystery filled with recipes for things such as Ultimate Strawberry Bundt Cake, White Chocolate Brownies, Chocolate Cream Pie, Molasses Walnut Drop Cookies, Coconut Snow Sandwich Cookies, Forgotten Cookies, and Chocolate-Covered Peanut Butter Candy. While the mystery may be a little easy to figure out, its good fun reading and she leaves a surprise at the end as she has been doing lately. I give this four out of five stars.
Link to Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Chocolate-Murder-Hannah-Swensen-Mystery-ebook/dp/B07DBQYT2W/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=chocolate+cream+pie+murder&qid=1557920689&s=gateway&sr=8-2
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