A baker in small-town Minnesota turns amateur sleuth after finding her friend and delivery driver shot to death behind her shop.
College educated Hannah Swensen owns and operates Hannah's Cookie Jar, a bakery and café, in the small town of Eden Lake, Minnesota, where she grew up and where most everyone knows everyone else. Baking for the community and taking care of her cat are Hannah's primary concerns in life, while finding a husband by making herself more feminine being at the bottom of the list, which irks her widowed mother, Delores Swensen, and all the women in town who know Hannah is a catch if she would only show that side of herself. As such, Hannah does not appreciate Delores ambushing her with Dr. Norman Rhodes, the handsome bachelor dentist just arrived in town, despite admitting to herself that he is charming. Eden Lake is turned upside down when Hannah's childhood friend and the bakery's longtime dairy supplier delivery guy, Ron LaSalle, is found murdered outside the bakery, Hannah who finds his dead body behind the wheel of his delivery truck. Because the local police department is ill-equipped to handle a murder investigation, they call in Detective Mike Kingston of the Minneapolis PD to lead the investigation. As she finds Mike arrogant and because she doesn't trust him to know the ins and outs of Eden Lake in solving the murder of her friend, Hannah does some investigating of her own, while Mike does not appreciate an amateur sleuth interfering in the investigation. Hannah and Mike may have to come to a compromise and work together to find out who killed Ron.—Huggo
Hannah Swensen is the owner/operator of Hannah's Cookie Jar, a bakery and café, in the small town of Eden Lake, Minnesota, baking and her cat her life. As she isn't interested in finding a husband, her divorced mother takes it upon herself to find her a man, her choice being dentist Norman Rhodes, who Hannah does like and who likes Hannah in return. But Hannah seems more drawn to Police Detective Mike Kingston, who moved to Eden Lake from Minneapolis after being seconded to assist in the town's first ever murder investigation. The push and pull between Hannah and Mike is that Hannah always seems to find whoever ends up murdered in Eden Lake, she, against Mike's wishes who only wants to keep her safe, always compelled to provide what generally ends up being her valuable two-cents or usually more in investigating herself.—Huggo