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Gingerbread Cookie Murder (2010)

by Joanne Fluke(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0758234953 (ISBN13: 9780758234957)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Kensington

review 1: Three short mysteries make up this book: "Gingerbread Cookie Murder" by Joanne Fluke, "The Dangers of Gingerbread Cookies" by Laura Levine, and "Gingerbread Cookies and Gunshots" by Leslie Meier. My favorite of the three was Levine's "Dangers of Gingerbread Cookies" It brought to my mind how the holidays are so often fraught with the encumbrances of family obligations. Certainly helping with a home-written Christmas play production in your parent's retirement home is fertile ground for a family holiday situation comedy to accompany the mystery. This story moved along swiftly for me and was a pleasant diversion. Fluke's "Gingerbread Cookie Murder" was too dense with recipes for my reading taste. While the recipes are entertaining to read by themselves -- and I'm sure... more also quite delicious -- their positioning in the middle of the story action was disruptive for my reading. I skipped them and went back later to read them so the flow of the story wasn't lost. Meier's "Gingerbread Cookies and Gunshots" was an appropriate holiday tug at the heartstrings and did belong at the end of the collection.All in all this collection of stories would be appropriate for light holiday reading, with the short stories fitting well into those odd bits of time available for escape from holiday brouhaha. Reading them mid-year as I have done, they served to remind me why Christmas is such a hectic, crazy time that we would often like to escape from while immersed in it. Which reminds me, it's only six more months 'til it starts over again. Oh, no!!!
review 2: This one was saved by the final story. The first and title story by Joanne Fluke was not bad, though I didn't really understand the whole boyfriend thing with the main character and two guys. The second one was pretty awful; Jaine kept going on and on about her weight and how she couldn't stop eating and it was seriously annoying. The narrator for this part wasn't great either, and I was glad when it finally ended. The final story by Leslie Meier was great; I liked the characters, and the mystery itself was good. I just wish they hadn't named the missing kid Nemo haha. This one also had the best narrator of the three. I might read more of the Lucy Stone mysteries, so not a complete wash! less

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