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The Plant-Based Journey: A Step-by-Step Guide for Transitioning to a Healthy Lifestyle and Achieving Your Ideal Weight

Howard Jacobson, Lani Muelrath, T. Colin Campbell and Neal Barnard

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It's been proven that a plant-based diet is good for your weight, health, budget, and the...

Happy Gut: The Cleansing Program to Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Eliminate Pain

Vincent Pedre

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Following the success of the bestselling Clean Gut and Wheat Belly comes this essential guide to...

The Parisian Diet: How to Reach Your Right Weight and Stay There

Jean-Michel Cohen and Fabrice A. Boutain

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Frances leading nutritionist Dr. Jean-Michel Cohen pinpoints why you struggle with other weight-loss...

The SIRT Food Diet: The Revolutionary Plan for Health and Weight Loss

Glen Matten and Aidan Goggins

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Welcome to the official Sirt Food Diet - the revolutionary way to lose 7lb in 7 days. Add healthy...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2204 KP) rated Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder in Books

Apr 23, 2021 (Updated Apr 23, 2021)

Murder in the Mayor’s Office

Easter is coming, and The Cookie Jar is awash in orders, keeping Hannah Swensen, her business partner Lisa, and the rest of their staff busy. But that doesn’t mean that Hannah doesn’t have time to help her sister Andrea when she calls in a panic. She’s just found Mayor Bascomb’s dead body in his office hours after having a very loud fight with him. The police wouldn’t be doing their job if they didn’t consider Andrea a suspect, so Hannah springs into action to figure out what really happened. Can she prove her sister is innocent?

I’ve been reading this long running series since the beginning, and I keep reading because I do enjoy catching up with the characters. If that is your reason for picking up the book, you’ll find they are as charming as always. I was pleased to see the soap opera of the previous few books has died down, and we see growth in a surprising direction in one character. Sadly, the love triangle is no closer to being resolved. The mystery is decent with enough suspects to keep us engaged. However, the focus is on the food. There is plenty of talk about food and how much the characters love what they are eating. With 24 new recipes for us to try, there is certainly plenty of new food to talk about. The dialogue is repetitious, an example of why realistic dialogue is better than real dialogue in a novel. While I still want to catch up with the characters, I find myself skimming the book instead of reading it closely. If you are like me and want to keep up with the characters, you’ll be glad you picked up this book. But if you haven’t started the series yet, you’ll want to go back to the beginning to find out why there are readers like me who still enjoy visiting the characters. And if you’ve given up on the series, you can safely skip this one.