Booklist praised her plot-twists in Devil's Food Cake Murder. Library Journal writes that the depiction of the story in Cinnamon Roll Murder is so natural, it is difficult to remember that the characters are fictional. Hannah Swensen lives in a small Minnesota town and Fluke feels that the stories are a welcome escape from reality. Fluke combined the two ideas by including recipes in the series.
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The idea for the series came out of Fluke's desire to create a cookbook, and her editor's suggestion that she write a cozy mystery series.
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įluke began writing her cozy mystery series starring Hannah Swensen, an "amateur sleuth and baker" in 2000. In the 1980s, Fluke began writing young adult horror stories under the name Jo Gibson. Fischmann and lives with her husband, children and stepchildren in southern California. Īccording to the author's website, "While pursuing her writing career, Joanne has worked as a public school teacher, a psychologist, a musician, a private detective’s assistant, a corporate, legal, and pharmaceutical secretary, a short-order cook, a florist’s assistant, a caterer and party planner, a computer consultant on a now-defunct operating system, a production assistant on a TV quiz show, half of a screenwriting team with her husband, and a mother, wife, and homemaker." įluke is married to television writer Ruel E. įluke has been baking since she was a child and comes from a long line of bakers. in psychology, in 1973, from California State University, San Bernardino. She graduated from Swanville High School in 1960, attended St. Fluke was born to Cliff and Esther Gibson in c.