Joanne Fluke's second Hannah Swensen book was a quick, fun read. A flour company is holding their annual bake off at Lake Eden, and Hannah is a judge. One of the other judges has a dental emergency and has to drop out, so the high school basketball coach, Boyd Watson, fills in. Hannah doesn't care for Boyd, since she knows his dirty secret: he beats his wife, Danielle. When Danielle calls her in the middle of the night, begging her to come over, Hannah assumes Boyd has been hitting her again. Instead she finds Boyd beaten to death with a hammer in the garage. Danielle swears she didn't do it, even though she had good reason to, and Hannah believes her. So does Mike, the new detective on the force, but he forbids Hannah from meddling in the investigation like she did last time. Hannah ignores him and enlists her sister Andrea's help. She and Andrea determine a local reporter named Lucy is blackmailing people, and after rifling through her apartment find a roll of film hidden in a secret compartment in her desk. Norman, the local dentist, is an amateur photographer and develops the film for Hannah, and they find out Lucy got a picture of Boyd's murder. Unfortunately the only thing they can make out is a unique cuff link, so Hannah and Andrea go to work trying to track it down.
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