Joanne Fluke

When one of her famous Red Velvet cupcakes is thought to have caused the death of her rival--a scandalous Lake Eden legend who was trying to steal her boyfriend--Hannah Swensen becomes the unlikely suspect in a murder investigation and must whip up the real killer before someone else gets iced.

Bakery owner and sleuth Hannah Swensen is on the case when Connie Mac, the pompous host of a cable TV cooking show who has been chosen to bake this year's official Winter Carnival cake, is murdered while eating one of Hannah's famous blueberry muffins.

The filming of a television special at brokenhearted Hannah Swensen's bakery is complicated by her shifty ex, an intrusive gang of bodyguards, and an untimely murder that compels her alliance with an old flame.

Throwing herself into the holiday season in the aftermath of her husband Ross' disappearance, Hannah Swensen investigates the murder of her husband's television-station assistant, who had been driving Ross' car and working from his office at the time of his death.

Baker Hannah Swensen agrees to help bake pastries at a local inn during a flashy fishing competition but investigates when the event’s celebrity spokesperson is found dead.

Serving super sweet pink lemonade desserts at the Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration, Hannah finds the mood souring when a retired professional MLB player meets his demise and takes a swing at finding the killer in a league of their own.

While scouring her boyfriend's new house for antiques, occasional sleuth and bake shop owner Hannah Swenson and her mother stumble upon the dead body of Rhonda Scarf, the house's former owner, as well as one of Hannah's legendary lemon meringue pies, plunging Hannah into her latest mystery.

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Bakery owner Hannah Swensen is leaving Lake Eden to help a friend in sunny California. But an unexpected phone call swiftly brings her back to a cold Minnesota winter . . . and murder . . .

When Hannah learns that her sister Michelle's boyfriend, Detective...

When Hannah Swenson finds her neighbor murdered next to a box of her gingerbread cookies, she discovers a flurry of murder suspects as long as her holiday shopping list. Jaine Austen has been enlisted to help with her parents' retirement community holiday play. Dr. Preston McCay falls to his death during the final act and Jaine must figure out if it was murder. Lucy Stone discovers a body and with the hours quickly ticking till Christmas, Lucy races...

USA Today Bestseller: A Minnesota baker is pulled into the mix when a man from her past is murdered: "Charming...scrumptious recipes."—Publishers Weekly

Early summer brings plenty of work for baker Hannah Swensen, even before Mayor Bascomb's wife drops by The Cookie Jar to place an order for her charity event...for eleven hundred cookies! And Hannah almost flips when her business partner, Lisa, suggests setting

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