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Hannah Swensen and Lisa Herman own the Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minnesota. Business is very good in the resort town and the two stay quite busy baking cookies and selling coffee. Lake Eden is a small town and one can stay pretty up-to-date just by sitting in the coffee shop of the Cookie Jar. Norman, one of Hannah's two sometimes boyfriends, picked the Cookie Jar as the place to sign the contract for the house he just bought. According to Norman, he bought the Voelker place from Rhonda Scharf in order to demolish the old house and build a custom designed home on the spot. In fact, the custom home that he and Hannah designed for a contest and won first prize. Everyone but Hannah thinks Norman is building the house as a home for the two of them and that he will ask her to marry him soon. When Hannah's mother, Delores asks Norman if she can have any antiques Rhonda left in the old house, he quickly agrees. The three of them go out to the house to see what's there. They find many antiques, but when Delores goes into the basement looking for antique tools she finds a dead body. Hannah's other sometimes boyfriend is Mike, who is a detective with the sheriff's department. Usually Mike is very opposed to Hannah getting involved in police investigations. This time, however, he seems resigned to the fact that no matter what he does or says, she will somehow be involved. That is a good thing because sometimes more information can come from gossip and "friendly encounters" than from the most well developed police investigation. This murder mystery is built around small town life and includes some of the most wonderful dessert recipes you could ever hope to taste. All of the characters seem very true-to-life and the location is enticing enough for your next vacation! This is a great new addition to the wonderful Hannah Swensen series.
Reviewed by Barb Wright, June 2003
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