Update on my book & Finished??

Very recently I've finished my book Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke. From the front to back cover I loved the book, and to say the least I devoured it (get my pun?). I wish I could say that I could read it whenever I found time, but to be honest I sat down and finished it in probably 4 hours. Guilty bookworm, I know. It now joins the collection on my bookshelf, with others who share the battle scars of bent covers, wrinkled pages, and creased spines. Not sure if I should be proud of the next part but I've managed to pick up a few other books from the series that have found themselves onto that shelf too.

Fudge Cupcake Murder follows the main protagonist Hannah Swensen. Hannah owns a bakery called the Cookie Jar but always manages to mix herself into trouble. The story takes starts off in the high school of the small town in Minnesota. This time she finds the sheriffs body outside by the dumpster, and the investigation leads to her brother in law! All of the facts seem to lead to him as he was running for Sherriff against Sherriff Grant and a recent fight seems to make him the main suspect.  So the natural thing to do in this case is to investigate on her own, right? Well that's just what she does, with he help of her family to clear her sisters husbands name and to hopefully find the real person who was behind this crime.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone else who is obsessed with mysteries, along with me. The reading level isn't that hard in this book but it is a bit long, which might be a turn off. You may be wondering what you would say this book is related too. Or better yet how would you compare this to other popular books/movies/stories. I would say that it is a mix of Nancy Drew meets NCIS meets Scooby Doo. If you aren't familiar with these to say the least, LOOK THEM UP.

From my last post I mentioned my first impressions of it, and after finishing it I still have very positive views towards it. I completely agree with a quote on the cover of the book from The Midwest book review , in which they say,

"Fudge Cupcake Murder should not be read on an empty stomach because there are mouth watering recipes and descriptions of desserts in almost every chapter."

 I mean there was a total of probably 10 recipes in this book, which I made me extremely hungry while reading it. This fact alone just gives it 2 extra stars, but there are more reasons in which this book deserves 5 stars. One star goes to the fact that Fluke manages to keep the plot going through and not slow and sloppy. This is a really great thing too, as this book has over 300 pages and usually books that have this many pages tend to get slow and boring at parts. Another star goes to the fact that I could relate to the characters and their stories. I found myself holding my breath through a part when the character did the same and that's a great quality in a book. And the last star goes to the great mystery that this book follows. I've always loved a good mystery and over the years have developed a knack for knowing who did the crime halfway through the book. But I'm happy to say that in this book, I didn't see it coming, and I enjoyed that. So that is all of the 5 stars.