"When asked to investigate a murder in a seemingly idyllic Minnesota town, Rushmore McKenzie finds that all the evidence points directly at his client"--

It promises to be a busy week for Hanna Swensen. Not only is she whipping up treats for the chamber of commerce at the fair; she is also judging the banking contest, acting as a magician's assistant for her business partner's husband; trying to coach Moishe, her previously rapacious feline, to en his hunger strike, and performing her own private carnival act by juggling the demands of her mother and sisters.

With the launch party for her mother's novel around the corner, bakery owner Hannah Swensen has a dress to fit into and a date with her sister at Lake Eden's new health club, Heavenly Bodies. Dragging herself out of bed on a frigid morning for exercise is bad enough. Discovering a dead body in the gym's jacuzzi? Okay, that's worse. Nor does it help that there's a plate of The Cookie Jar's cream puffs garnishing the murder scene.

"Recovering from a terrible auto accident just before the turn of the millennium, college dropout and hobbyist computer-game programmer Lucien Swenson becomes the caretaker of a house in northern Minnesota. Lucien sets out to find a missing woman he had been having an affair with, who vanished along with money stolen from the bank where they had worked together. His search will take him to Rose of Sharon, a white supremacist church deep in the wilderness,...