Red Velvet Cupcake Murder was my first book by Joanne Fluke. I listened to the audiobook. When I picked it up at the library I did not realize it was part of a series. This is book 16 in the series and follows Hannah Swensen. It seems I didnt really need to have read the previous books to follow the story. Yes, I didn’t know back stories on the charters, but that didn’t really seem to hurt my reading if it.

There are not one, but two mysteries in the novel! One is what happened to Barbara Donnelly- was she pushed or did she jump? The second mystery involves a murder that happens a little later on in the book.

Maybe I didn’t “get” everything that happened in the book. I did not see the point of the “monster” that Barbara sees.

I loved Hannah’s cat!- the description of the cat reminded me of my own big boy Curry. The only thing was whenever the cat meowed- the narrator did it so loud it hurt my ears- OUCH!!! (I have hearing issued so it really hurt).

It was a good book, not the best and not the worst.