Joanne Fluke

Joanne Fluke visits us to autograph and read from her newest installment of the popular 'Hannah Swensen Mysteries.' Let her transport you to Lake Eden, Minnesota, and a world of murder, mayhem and mouth-watering recipes!

Like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Fluke grew up in a small town in rural Minnesota where her neighbors were friendly, the winters were fierce, and the biggest scandal was the spotting of unidentified male undergarments on a young widow's clothesline. She insists that there really are 10,000 lakes and the mosquito ... (more)is NOT the state bird. While pursuing her writing career, Joanne has worked as: a public school teacher, a psychologist, a musician, a private detective's assistant, a corporate, legal, and pharmaceutical secretary, a short order cook, a florist's assistant, a caterer and party planner, a computer consultant on a now-defunct operating system, a production assistant on a TV quiz show, half of a screenwriting team with her husband, and a mother, wife, and homemaker. She now lives in Southern California with her husband, her kids, his kids, their three dogs, one elderly tabby, and several noisy rats in the attic.

Wed. March 10: Joanne Fluke signs Apple Turnover Murder

Cost of the Talk and Signing is $5 but you can get free admission with the purchase of the new book, Apple Turnover Murder. Joanne introduced bakery shop owner Hannah Swensen in The Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder. Twelve books followed with Apple Turnover Murder the 13th in the series. The event will be ... (more)held in the community room on the lower level of the Oakont Carnegie Library, located at the corner of Pennsylvania Ave. and Allegheny River Boulevard, 3 blocks from Mystery Lovers Bookshop. You can enter at ground level on the Pennsylvania Ave. side of the building.

In Apple Turnover Murder (Kensington), New York Times-bestselling author Joanne Fluke's latest murder mystery (with recipes!), it's June in Lake Eden, Minnesota — and for Hannah Swenson, that means bridal showers galore, not to mention a killer who never learned that charity begins at home.

Fluke signs The Plum Pudding Murder (Kensington $24), so naturally we will serve some in a kind of Christmas prelude... We think the whole reason to eat the pudding is to slather on the hard sauce so we'll make some of it and pass out recipes. The Cookie Jar's busiest time of the year also happens to ... (more)be the most wonderful time...for Christmas cookies, Hannah's own special plum pudding - and romance! Holiday orders are high, and Hannah's slated to provide dessert at the Reverend Knudsen's upcoming nuptials. She's busy as can be and loving it. She also gets a kick out of 'Lunatic Larry Jaeger's Crazy Elf Christmas Tree Lot', a kitschy carnival taking place smack-dab in the middle of the village green. Larry thinks he's crazy like a fox with his wild business schemes, but this time, the entrepreneur may have bitten off more than he can chew. Rumour has it that Larry's in the red - an idea that takes a sinister turn when Hannah discovers the man himself dead as a doornail in his own office...It seems quite a few people would have liked to fill Larry's stocking with coal and then bash him with it - including his bitter ex-wife, his ex-partner's daughter, a woman he was wooing, and the Crazy Elf Tree lot's extremely exasperated investors...Now, with so many suspects to investigate and the twelve days of Christmas ticking away, Hannah's running out of time to nab a murderous Scrooge who doesn't want her to see the New Year.

Joanne Fluke signs Cream Puff Murder (Kensington hc, $24.00). It's a busy time for Hannah. Her mother is about to have a novel published and one of the trainers has been found dead in the health club's Jacuzzi with a plate of Hannah's cream puffs nearby. To make it even more complicated, the delicacies ... (more)were purchased by Hannah's flame Det. Mike Kingston. 11th in this culinary series.

Winter in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is the perfect time to curl up by a cozy fire with something — and someone — sweet. But while bakery owner Hannah Swensen can provide herself with the confections, cuddling will have to take a back seat to sleuthing when her sometime-squeeze becomes a murder suspect! ... (more)Cream Puff Murder, the latest treat from bestselling author Joanne Fluke, includes 12 original dessert recipes for you to try.

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