Chocolate Cream Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke

Chocolate Cream Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

If it weren't for the fact that I got this from NetGalley I most likely would not have bought this book. I thought the last book about Ross really bit the big one. (see my review of Banana Cream Pie Murder) .

I see that a lot of people really love this book, so while it's not my glass of wine, it may be yours!

This book tries to explain in more depth why Ross took off shortly after the wedding to Hannah -keyword tries. And it does, sort of.

Okay, pros and cons of this book:

Pros
It is a cozy and simple book - nothing complicated about it at all.

It has cats in it.

It has cool Minnesotan phraseology in it.

It has great snowy weather in it.

It has the usual character's in it.

It has food in it---a LOT of food.

It shows Ross as a real nutcase. Interesting.

There is no swearing.

There are no exchanges whatsoever of any kinds of body fluids. No sex--not even kissing.

There is an interesting sort of cliff-hanger.

It has a lot of food/recipes in it and this time, not all the foods are cookies or bars.

Cons

The discussions of food can put you in a real food coma, literally. How the heck do they eat so much and how the heck do they NEVER make a new cookie/muffin/bar/egg dish that never comes out crappy or burns or people just don't plain like it? It would be a little more realistic.

The police work is so simple that I would think that this is taking place on an Amish farm somewhere. And of course, Hannah doesn't listen to the cop when finally a murder (at 80%) happens.

The recipes take up at least 50 pages of the Kindle version (my estimation since this is an ARC I'm going from). So, while you are paying for 300 pages of mystery, that is not what you are getting and it shows.

The minutia is enough to drive one crazy.

There is a cliff hanger (of course)

No new character growth.

Sorry but you are going to have to make up your own mind on this one.


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