Peach Cobbler Murder ピーチコブラーは嘘をつく by Joanne Fluke

"翻訳本が待ちきれず、ペーパバックを購入。英語初心者なため、どうにかこうにか読み終えました。いつもどおり、文章自体はあまり難しくないので文中の会話を頼みの綱に何とか理解。あとは、翻訳が出版されたら読み比・・・という状態でのレビューですが、いつもの殺人事件は、いつものごとく解決。でもハンナと彼女を取り巻く環境が ...." "もう７巻目になると自分がレイクエデンに移住してるって思えるぐらい登場人物が身近な存在に思えます。毎度毎度、死体を見つけてしまうハンナやけどそれは今作でも変わらないところです。今回も刑事部長でもあるボーイフレンド？マイクには内緒で捜査をするのですが、妹のアンドリアと母のドロレス、そしてハンナのボーイフレンド？の歯科医ノーマンとの連携がみものです。このシリーズの特徴としては謎解きと平行して進む、ハンナの恋の行方が注目です。果たして魅力的でハンサムなマイクを選ぶのか、面白くて優しいノーマンを選ぶのか読者には凄く気になるところです。今まで進展がありそうでなかった３人の関係やけど、今作では急展開します。遂に８作目ではどちらかを選ぶのかなって思わせるような終わり方が、早く次の作品を読みたいって気持ちにさせます。さらにお馴染みになったハンナのお菓子のレシピが紹介されてます。本作では１４種類のケーキやクッキーが紹介されてるので、お菓子を作るのが好きな人は挑戦してほしいものです。事件ばかり起こるけど、レイクエデンみたいな田舎暮らしもいいなって思ってしまうぐらい温かい雰囲気に包まれてます。都会にはない人とのつながりも凄く羨ましいです ....." "Hannah Swenson thought it was nice to have another bakery in town, if it wasn't owned and run by Shawna Lee Quinn and her widowed, rich sister Vanessa, and wasn't located directly across the street from "The Cookie Jar", her bakery. As her profits dropped she started to worry about possibly going out of business. But she wanted to keep it from her partner, Lisa, who was getting married to her policeman boyfriend Herb soon, and doesn't want to worry her. Hannah knew that Shawna was trying to take her boyfriend, Mike away from her, but she's more furious at her attempt to bankrupt her business. Afterall, with a rich relative who didn't mind loosing money on the venture, Shawna could hold out for a long time, even if her bakery goods weren't as tasty as Hannah's. But even Hannah didn't want the rivalry to end the way it did, when she found Shawna Lee in the kitchen of the Magnolia Blossom, shot dead....."

전작들에서 암시하고 있던 사건들이 드러나는 작품이다. 배신, 공모, 사기, 살인, 도망, 유산, 신분 사기, 경쟁, 결혼, 오해, 착각, 추적, 프러포즈, 질투, 실연 등의 단어들이 작품을 이해하는 핵심어인 거 같다.  전작들처럼 'I'll eat my hat 내 손에 장을 지지겠다.' 같은 관용적 표현들이 등장하는 거 빼고는 무난한 문장과 표현들로 구성된 작품이다. 이야기 전개가 심플하고 진도가 잘 나가는 편이다.