Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Total garbage. I really don't understand how this author has sold so many books with this same character. It's the most implausible mystery novel I've ever read and that's saying something- because I usually stick with fantasy and science fiction. I'll just give you a few salient points as to why I have such a low opinion of a bestseller: 1. On the jacket, it describes the murder victim with "Hannah's famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him, her life can't get any worse" and she's investigating the murder to protect her reputation. Nope- the issue of the scattered cookies comes up once and only once- the discovery of the body. It is never again mentioned, and her reputation is never questioned at any time. She investigates because (ludicrously) her brother in law, a Sherriff deputy ASKS for her to do so. Um....... is that legal?? Last I checked, police do not take kindly to outside interference. 2. Hannah's progression with clues reads like an eighth grader wrote it. So-and-so wears this lipstick, let's ask her what she knows. Oh, she said him-haw drove by last night, let's ask him what he knows. AND so on. Ad nauseum. 3. There is almost no character description other than vague generalities about their clothing ("she wore the blue dress from the window of Beau Monde") other than the main character about whom all I gleaned was that she has red curly hair, is tall, and wears a 9.5 narrow shoe. Not skin color, eye color, body, height, facial expressions NOTHING about anyone else. I assume they're all fit and thin (I'll get to that in a second). No one else merits the slightest description or character development. All of the text is devoted to getting to the next clue (see above). EXCEPT when the author fat-shames a minor informer character by giving her a lengthy description about how no one wants to dance with her because of her size and "a man needed steel toe boots to dance with her," also "at 300 pounds, Hannah and her high school friends had called her "heavy-duty"' Finally, when the author described the outfit, she goes to the trouble of saying Betty's vertical stripes weren't as slenderizing as she supposed and she looked like a circus tent. Bonus- Hannah mentally tells herself to go on a 10lb diet while looking at Betty. Seriously? No one else got any kind of description but "the fat girl", about whom she waxed poetic regarding her perceived flaws. I found this infuriatingly ironic considering the main character OWNS A COOKIE SHOP and everyone is eating cookies throughout the book. How about making Hannah a vegan who owns a salad shop/yoga studio before letting her fat-shame other characters? Give her a self-righteous leg to stand on. Nah, that's too plausible. 4. Was this supposed to be a "fun" read? I feel like I'm reading an eighth grader's attempt at writing a short story that turned into a novel because they couldn't figure out how to use cliffhangers, or plot twists, or reach a climax that ties the book together cohesively. Which is amazing, considering the incredibly linear progression. (See #2) If by "fun" they meant "amateurish, implausible, and immature" then yes, it's a barrel of monkeys. It does have cookie recipes in it, so that's cool I guess, but then there's always Pinterest for that. Utter waste of $8.