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This is without a doubt the worst of the Hannah Swenson mysteries, and may be one of the worst mysteries I've ever read. I bought this book with the Blackberry Pie mystery which I thought was pretty bad, but it's a masterpiece next to this book. At the end of the last book we were waiting for Hannah's trial for running over and killing a man. But at the beginning of this book we are forced to endure Delores's Las Vegas wedding to Doc for the first 7 chapters. When Doc's best man can't make it - the substitute best man is Ross Barton (from the Cherry Cheesecake mystery - Didn't like him there, don't like him here). The old college friend of Hannah's. After the wedding, Hannah returns home only to have her judge beaten to death while she sat outside his office on the morning her trial is supposed to begin. Her attorney just happens to pick that moment to step outside the waiting room for a call, so she doesn't have an alibi. Of course, no one actually investigates the crime except for Hannah, as she goes it alone once again to save herself from a murder charge. :) Highlights: Norman, Moishe the cat. :) Lowlights: Moishe the cat - The repetitive descriptions of some of his actions - Rushing the door when she comes home or when he and Cuddles chase each other around the table get's old after the 3 or 4th time telling "In The Same Book." Ross Barton - Check out my spoiler alerts below if you've read the book, otherwise come back after you've read the book. The mystery. What mystery? Of course, Hannah would be suspected, after all isn't that what a killer does, wait to be escorted to the waiting room with her lawyer and then burst in and kill her judge? The solution. Hi, I'm some person they bring in on the last chapter of the book, me and my situation never mentioned before so they could end this farce of a mystery. Everyone keeps saying how ridiculous the charges are. Maybe over charged, but Hannah was speeding, without her lights, unable to see clearly because of the heavy rain on a back road, going around a bend where a tree blocked the road. If she had been driving for the conditions and had a car that worked properly, she might have been able to see it before she had to slam on her brakes and run over and kill some guy. The recipes. I love a good recipe, but when you start groaning at the mention of any food mentioned in the storyline because you know you're going to get a recipe for it, it's too many, some of them take 2 or 3 pages and this is just a 356 page book with 29 recipes. All the 5 star reviews, until I realized 90 percent of them don't describe anything in this book, just I love it. Best Book. Great Mystery, in about a sentence. That's why I don't read the reviews until I read the book, mainly to see if I'm crazy or not when I dislike something. SPOILER ALERTS :) :) :) :) SPOILER ALERTS :) :) :) :) The mystery is so badly written that it doesn't even look like Joanne Fluke wrote it. Although Hannah has insisted that Norman and Mike give her space to make up her mind and they oblige her, even staying friends, suddenly she's upset over that. It appears what she really wanted was for them to punch each other out to win her affections. Hannah falls madly in love with Ross from the time she hears his voice at the chapel until she makes it to the end of the aisle with him. (it would appear that everyone, including her mother, has kept in touch with him over all these years and were hiding it from her that he was going to be the best man) It seems they are matchmaking? Why, has she ever given any indication that she was in love with him? Is this part of the secret conversations that go on outside the books, so we the readers are surprised. In the three days they spend in Las Vegas, suddenly he wasn't really interested in his old girlfriend, was in love with Hannah - but didn't do anything in the dozen years since they were out of college. Wants to give up his Hollywood career to work at a radio station in Lake Eden. Right. You can't just conjour things out of thin air without some back story. I though the whole Norman and Dr. Bev story along with Mike basically showing up to eat was heading towards a good solution, but this ending at the airport is a nightmare - I've never wished for a plane crash in a book so much.