The protagonist of this story, Hannah, is busy fending off her mother's attempts to marry her off while running Lake Eden's hottest bakery. But when Ron LaSalle, the beloved paperboy, is found dead in the back of her bakery, life can't get any worse for her. Determined to not let it affect the reputation of her establishment and her famous cookies, she sets out to find the killer. But if she's not careful, her sweet life could quickly turn sour. No one serves up as delicious and suspenseful a mystery as Hannah Swensen, Joanne Fluke's red-haired pastry heroine, whose gingerbread cookies are as tart as her.