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With her dream of opening The Cookie Jar taking shape, Hannah's life matches the hectic December hustle and bustle in Lake Eden--especially when she agrees to help recreate a spectacular Christmas Ball from the past in honor of Essie Granger, an elderly local in hospice care. But instead of poring over decadent dessert recipes for the merry festivities, she instantly becomes enthralled by Essie's old notebooks and the tale of a woman escaping danger on the streets of New York. Hannah's surprised by Essie's secret talent for penning crime fiction. She's even more surprised when the story turns real. As Hannah prepares to run a bakery and move out of her mother's house, it'll be a true miracle if she can prevent another Yuletide disaster by solving a mystery as dense as a Christmas fruitcake.
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27 primary books29 released booksHannah Swensen is a 29-book series with 27 primary works first released in 2000 with contributions by Joanne Fluke.
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It was a good cozy book, but I kept waiting on the murder part of the Christmas Cake Murder. This popped up as a good seasonal read but this might have been a bad book to start with. As I heard (after reading) that this book was a story that was taking place before the main series and was a good look into the characters. Maybe I will pick up another book in the series sometimes.