Preparations are underway for Lake Eden, Minnesota's annual Winter Carnival and Hannah Swensen is set to bake up a storm at her poplar shop, The Cookie Jar. Too bad the honor of creating the official Winter Carnival cake went to famous lifestyle maven Connie Mac--a half-baked idea, in Hannah's opinion. She suspects Connie Mac is a lot like the confections she whips up on her cable TV cooking show--sweet, light, and scrumptious-looking, but likely to leave a bitter taste in your mouth. Hannah's suspicions are confirmed when Connie Mac's limo rolls into town. Turns out America's "Cooking Sweetheart" is bossy, bad-tempered, and downright domineering. Things finally boil over when Hannah arrives at The Cookie Jar to find the Winter Carnival cake burnt to a crisp--and Connie Mac lying dead in her pantry, struck down while eating one of Hannah's famous blueberry muffins. Next thing Hannah knows, the police have declared the Cookie Jar's kitchen a crime scene off-limits. She's a bake without an oven and the Carnival is right around the corner. Hannah's only alternative is to cook up a plan to save her business by finding the killer herself.
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