Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
Mystery Book Club
Chocolate Chip Cookie Discussion Questions
- What do you think of the 3rd person narration?
- How does the book beginning with a scene about Hannah’s cat shape the book?
- How ‘small town’ does the beginning of the book feel?
- Does it seem like a bakery could make it over the winter in a town of 3,000 but maybe if it is really the local coffeehouse and meeting place?
- Do you like Hannah?
- What do you think of Andrea, Hannah’s sister, especially her relationship with Tracey, her 4 year old?
- What would you do if you found a body behind your store or house?
- Do you notice how many groups have catering in this book? Even the romance book club has lunch catered.
- The book was published in 2000, does it feel dated?
- Is it unusual for a cozy that the detective actually asks the amateur sleuth for her help?
- What do you think of Hannah winning $1942 at the casino?
- What do you think of Hannah’s ex boyfriend, the scum bag professor?
- How does Hannah’s loneliness affect the story?
- What do you think of the slimey Max Turner as a villain?
- Would you go to check out Max’s house?
- Do all amateur detectives need to have an incredible sense of curiosity and flexible boundaries?
- When did you think that Max was dead?
- What do you think of Boyd and Danielle’s marriage where he mooches off of her, keeps it a secret and beats her? Why does she stay?
- Did you suspect that Judith was the killer?
- What do you think of her reason?
- What do you think of Hannah’s saving herself?
- What did you think of the epilogue where Hannah got asked out by two men?
- Did you like the book?
- Would you read more in the series?
- Why?
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