false 300388 5 `Tis the season for trimming the tree, caroling, baking cookies, and curling up by the Yuletide waiting for Santa to drop down the chimney. But in this festive collection of holiday whodunits, murder is also paying a visit... <P> <B> "Candy Cane Murder" by Joanne Fluke </B><P> <P>Bakery owner Hannah Swensen feels a little stuffed in her elf costume--but it's too late to count calories. Lake Eden's annual Christmas gala is upon her and eager children are waiting. Wayne Bergstrom, owner of Bergstrom's Department Store, happily ho-ho-hos his way through the festivities in his Santa suit. But when a trail of candy canes leads to his corpse in a snow bank, Hannah must find Kris Kringle's killer. <P> <P> <B> "The Dangers of Candy Canes" by Laura Levine </B><P> <P>When a wealthy suburbanite takes a lethal tumble off his roof while installing a giant candy cane, the roofing contractor being held responsible for murder asks freelance writer Jaine Austen to investigate. But solving this untimely holiday death means delving into the cutthroat Christmas decorating wars among scheming neighbors with dirty secrets in their stocking. It takes a fruitcake hiding a weapon and a stunning confrontation to expose the mastermind of this holiday murder. <P> <P> <B> "Candy Canes of Christmas Past" by Leslie Meier </B><P> <P>Twenty-some years ago, Lucy Stone arrived in Tinker Cove, Maine, and discovered her knack for solving mysteries when she met Miss Tilly, the town librarian, whose mother took a fatal fall down the basement stairs one Christmas Eve. The "accident" left a cloud of suspicion on Miss Tilly's father and a slew of other suspects. The only clue was a glass candy cane found smashed to bits by the victim's body. Now Lucy must learn the mystery of the glass candy cane as she unlocks the doors of Christmas past, exposing secrets, scandal, and a killer who got away with murder. <P> <P>Whether a gift for yourself or that special someone on your list, there's no better way to spend the holidays than with these tantalizing mysteries of murder... <P> <P> <B> Includes over 15 scrumptious holiday recipes! </B> <P><P>Santa gets bludgeoned, neighbors knock neighbors off their light-festooned roofs and householders nearly blow themselves into next year cooking Yule dinner in this triple-decker helping of holiday cheer.<P> <P>Fluke gives her regular sleuth the starring role in the saga of Santa's sad demise. Hannah Swenson finds skinflint department-store magnate Wayne Bergstrom with his neck broken after playing St. Nick at the Lake Eden Inn's gala. Even her boyfriend, Detective Mike Kingston, knows Hannah's going to investigate, although he tells her for the record to leave it to the professionals. Levine's Jaine Austen, a freelance writer who can resist anything but temptation, is in a holiday tizzy trying to clear Seymour Fiedler, proud proprietor of "Fiedler on the Roof Roofers," of the charge that he doctored the roofing tiles that led to irascible Garth Janken's untimely demise. And Meier takes Lucy Stone back in time, as Christmas with her grandson Patrick reminds her of her first Christmas in Tinker's Cove. Their house on Red Top Road was a mess, she was pregnant with her second child and her husband Bill tried to fix the pilot light on their cantankerous stove, causing an explosion that burned his arms. When librarian Julia Tilley comes to her rescue, Lucy in return tackles the mysterious death of Miss Tilley's mother. <P> <P>Like a box of holiday chocolates, this recipe-studded assortment gives all readers a crack at their favorites. -- <I>KIRKUS REVIEWS</I> 1582879 book 2007 Candy Cane Murder total:579|5:116|4:184|3:212|2:55|1:12| 579 2074 910 89 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 2 1 false Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 31 17:30:17 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 08 04:16:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 2 0 false Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 14:59:48 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 23:37:13 -0700 2009
Joanne Fluke has created a series based upon the idea that a small Minnesota cookie baker solves crime in her spare time. Well, because...who doesn't? T...more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 4 0 false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 14:29:50 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 11:07:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 4 0 false Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 05:43:28 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 04:27:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 2 0 false Mon Dec 22 09:13:04 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 12:21:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 2 0 false Tue Aug 12 08:02:34 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 16:54:03 -0700 2008
UGH! I cannot believe Fluke's writing. How on earth do her editors let her get away with these totally unbelievable plot lines? I feel like she wrote herself into a corner...more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 4 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 14 15:31:51 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 12:05:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 3 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 15:35:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 15:43:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 3 0 false Tue Nov 25 13:24:32 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 13:47:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 2 0 false Sat Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 08:52:18 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 08:54:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 2 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 08:15:09 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 15:50:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 3 0 false Mon Dec 29 22:58:57 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 22:58:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 3 0 false Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 11:31:54 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 15:30:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 4 0 false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 04:24:34 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 21:57:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5102783 0758221991 9780758221995 22 8 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255794629m/5102783.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5102783.Candy_Cane_Murder 2 0 false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 20:40:08 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 09:33:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 2 0 false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 17:00:39 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 17:02:45 -0800 2008 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 3 0 true Sun Mar 29 20:34:44 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 21:03:24 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 20:34:45 -0700 2009 Finished it today. A decent short story, well written but not very complex ending. Average. ]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 4 0 false Fri Nov 21 08:01:27 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 08:02:29 -0800 2008 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 2 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 15:54:44 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 14:46:56 -0800 2008
This is a collection of 3 short story murder mysteries that have a Christmas theme. The Christmas theme basically means snow and cookies.
The first short story: Candy Cane Murder was typical Joanne Fluke. Enjoyable but not edge of seat reading. The murder victim ...more...]]> 300388 0758221983 9780758221988 534 80 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300388.Candy_Cane_Murder 3 0 false Sun May 03 16:44:51 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 12:30:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=300388