“It’s been wonderful to actually see Hannah on the screen,” she said, and finds actress Alison Sweeney to be completely believable as the “movie” Hannah. That record was broken when Fluke’s second adaptation, “Murder, She Baked: A Plum Pudding Mystery ” premiered in November 2015. “Murder, She Baked: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery ” came out last year and became the network’s most-watched and highest-rated movie debut in its history, with more than a million viewers. Last month Hallmark Movies & Mysteries presented a movie based on “Peach Cobbler Murder,” the third film in an original movie series adapted from Fluke's series. Other novels in Fluke’s Hannah Swensen series, which started 15 years ago, include “Double Fudge Brownie Murder,” “Blackberry Pie Murder,” “Cinnamon Roll Murder” and, the one that started it all, “Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder,” which led to her baking tens of thousands of cookies for readers. There’s a little humor, a little romance, and a little jeopardy, but everything always turns out all right in the end.” Cozy mysteries are set in a kinder, gentler world-except for the murders, of course. She believes readers like the books because they “need a chance to get away from the everyday trials and tribulations of their lives.
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