Banana Cream Pie Murder

Hannah Swensen, who owns a bakery in Lake Eden, Minnesota, comes home from a seven-day cruise as a newlywed. The cruise capped an extravagant honeymoon, and she is ready to settle into married life and make her domestic plans real.

The homecoming goes sour fast. A neighbor of Hannah's mother is found dead in the condo downstairs. The victim is Victoria Bascomb, a once renowned stage actress who spent a short time in town and threw herself into the local theater community.

In that short time Victoria made a great many enemies. The police believe a random intruder killed her. Hannah is not convinced, and she wonders whether something more deliberate lay behind the crime.

She works through a long list of suspects while new troubles of her own pile up at home. This is a cozy mystery with a baker as the amateur sleuth, and the question is whether she can find the killer and stay alive while she does it.