When I first started reading Joanne Fluke’s series a few years ago, I had no idea it was being adapted into mystery movies. Imagine my delight in discovering that our HULU live subscription (obtained to watch sports) includes offerings from the Hallmark Channel. You might say a little something for everyone, including my teenage son who is just as likely to watch a Hallmark Christmas movie as he is a football game. Until the Christmas romance watching commences, I’ve been biding my time with the Hannah Swenson mysteries, some of which can be found under the title Murder She Baked. While true to the characters, the movies do change the perpetrators from the books, so no spoil alerts needed if you are watching after reading.
If you do want to read before you watch, this is a
post I wrote about the books in 2016.
In the murder mystery series by Fluke, Hannah Swenson owns
a bakery in Lake Eden, Minnesota. However, in between baking the next day’s
batch of cookies or catering her mother’s Regency Romance club, she has a nasty
habit of stumbling upon dead bodies.
Comfort food for the serial reader, this series is
predictable in plot (find a body, eat chocolate, go behind boyfriend
detective’s back to interview suspects, make a cake, get trapped in a small
space with the killer, eat more chocolate). Swensen’s obsession with new
recipes (helpfully printed at the end of each chapter) and the dilemma of which
suitor to marry - detective or dentist - is quaintly old-fashioned, in our age
of Instagram and Tinder. Also, comforting, once you’re hooked, is knowing that
there are 17 or 18 more to read.
And recipes involving double or triple chocolate to
try.
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