by Joanne Fluke
Part of Hannah Swensen, book 21
First published 2017
Hannah Swensen returns to Lake Eden, Minnesota after a luxurious seven-day cruise honeymoon, ready to embrace married life. Her domestic bliss shatters when Victoria Bascomb, a former stage actress living in her mother's neighbor's building, turns up dead in the downstairs condo. The police dismiss it as a random break-in, but Hannah suspects something more calculated. Victoria had made plenty of enemies during her short time in town through her involvement in local theater. Hannah digs into the victim's past and present, sifting through a growing list of suspects who had reason to want the actress gone. As she investigates, Hannah faces new personal challenges that complicate her search for the truth. The case becomes more dangerous than she anticipated, and Hannah must solve Victoria's murder while protecting herself from whoever killed once and might kill again.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary-romance, cozy-mystery
Vibes: cozy, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, found-family
Setting: Lake Eden, Minnesota
355 pages · Hardcover · Kensington