You are the owner of a bakery and cafe, and you teach culinary arts. What's more important to you: solving a mysterious murder or unraveling the cupcake recipe that a jealous owner took to her grave? A telephone and a woman's passion for long conversations are a good help for a skilled detective, who, by the way, has enough worries: Hannah Swensen bakes cakes, prepares a book of culinary recipes for the inhabitants of a provincial town, raises a cat, flirts with men, searches for a criminal, and her list of urgent matters is steadily growing. But, unlike the inventor of mysterious cupcakes with fondant buttercream frosting, Hannah Swensen knows how to share. Who said baking and detective fiction don't mix? Joanna Fluke's novel Murder in Buttercream is full of adventure and recipes.