Beverly Thorndike

## Relations

**Daughter**: Diana Thorndike

**Mother**: Judy Thorndike

## Books

* Apple Turnover Murder
* Devil's Food Cake Murder
* Cinnamon Roll Murder
* Red Velvet Cupcake Murder

**Beverly Thorndike** is a dentist, new business partner and ex-fiancée to Norman Rhodes. They were engaged for over a year When he lived in Seattle. She is mentioned in Gingerbread Cookie Murder.

## Bio

Mother: Judy Thorndike, lives in Minneapolis where Bev was born and grew up. Judy has been raising Diana since Beverly is more interested in being with her friends then with her daughter.
Daughter: Diana Thorndike, 4 years old lives with her grandmother
When Norman lived in Seattle, he was engaged to Dr. Bev for about a year, but they agreed that they were not ready to get married. She is

## Personality

Fake. Mike dated her a few times but decided that she was too phony and off, that he wouldn’t have anything more to do with her.

## Appearance

an attractive dark-haired woman on his arm.

## Chronology by Novel

### Apple Turnover Murder

At the end, Norman brings a guest to Delores
*I’d like you all to meet my new partner at Rhodes Dental Clinic, Doctor Beverly Thorndike.*

### Devil's Food Cake Murder

Dr. Bev doesn’t move to Lake Eden until January and promptly moves in to “The Oaks” upscale apartments, across the hall from Mike.

Not only does Dr. Bev go on dates with Norman but she soon starts going out with Mike too.

Bev demands that Norman gets rid of Cuddles and marry her, or he can’t be a part of his daughter Diana’s life.

### Cinnamon Roll Murder

She was caught in one lie after another.

When confronted with knowing Buddy Neiman she got so flustered that she ran out of Claire’s boutique in her wedding dress and left Lake Eden.

Hannah and Andrea sneakily obtained DNA samples of her daughter, Diana. Doc Knight had the paternity test ran on the samples, but he had included Buddy’s because at that time they were still trying to identify him. The lab misunderstood and included Buddy’s or Chaz Peyton as he is really known, in the paternity tests and his sample came back as 99.9% positive. Normans came back as not possible as the father.

But Norman had obtained his own samples of DNA and had the test run. He received the results just before the wedding and had it out with her that Diana is not his child and that the wedding was off.

### Red Velvet Cupcake Murder

Beverly is back in Lake Eden with a new look and a new fiancé, Roger Dalworth. Roger is very wealthy and his father’s company has just completed renovations on Albion Hotel converting it to seven high end condos in downtown Lake Eden.

But Beverly hasn’t changed, she treats every as if they are beneath her and the men as if they are easy prey. She makes it perfectly clear to Hannah, Lisa and Andrea that she has no intention of being faithful to Roger and that their men are fair game, especially Hannaha’s!

Beverly repeatedly tries to seduce Norman by any means she can come up with, but without any success. Then Hannah discovers that a car went off of the country road she was on and upon investigating discovers that there is a car at the bottom of “Mill Lake”. She dives in the pond to see if the person is still alive, when she gets closer she sees that it is Beverly. Hannah still attempts to rescue her and performs resuscitation before calling in emergency service.

Once the autopsy is completed, it is known that Beverly was killed with tranquilizers and died before her car went into the lake. Hannah is the number one suspect, even though no one including Mike believes that she did it.

When Beverly figured out that it was Roger that attempted to murder Barbara Donnelly she tried to blackmail him for millions, so he killed her.

## References

1. ↑ Apple Turnover Murder (Hannah Swensen series Book 13) (p. 290). Kensington Books. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Apple Turnover Murder (Hannah Swensen series Book 13) (pp. 290-291). Kensington Books. Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Fluke, Joanne. Red Velvet Cupcake Murder (Hannah Swensen series Book 16) (p. 338). Kensington Books. Kindle Edition.