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 Lonnie Murphy, is the prime suspect in a
murder case, she goes straight from a movie studio sound stage to the Los
Angeles airport. Back in frigid Minnesota, she discovers that proving
Lonnie's innocence will be harder than figuring out what went wrong with a
recipe. Lonnie remembers only parts of the night he went out to a local bar
and ended up driving a very impaired woman home. He knows he helped her to
her bedroom, but he doesn't recall anything else until he woke up on her
couch the following morning. When he went to the bedroom to check on her,
he was shocked to discover she was dead. Hannah doesn't know what to
believe--only that exonerating a suspect who can't remember is almost
impossible, especially since Lonnie's brother, Detective Rick Murphy, and
Lonnie's partner, Chief Detective Mike Kingston, have been taken off the
case. Before everything comes crashing down on Lonnie like a heaping slice
of coconut layer cake, it'll be up to Hannah to rack up enough clues to
toast a flaky killer . . .