IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.

- Joanne Fluke

The secret of high finance...if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you mon…

- Joanne Fluke

If chocolate were a mandatory part of breakfast, people wouldn’t be so grouchy in the morning.

- Joanne Fluke

Minnesotans who bought scenic art usually avoided winter scenes. Hannah didn't find that surprising. Minnesota winters were long. Why would they want…

- Joanne Fluke

She was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something in it and room to pour in more.

- Joanne Fluke

P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimne…

- Joanne Fluke

For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly.

- Joanne Fluke

If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.

- Joanne Fluke