About the book: 2005 / You are the owner of a bakery and cafe, you teach culinary arts. What is more important to you - solving a mysterious murder or unraveling the recipe for cupcakes 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 the Buttercream is full of adventure and recipes..