Okay, so picking up where "Peach Cobbler" left off, Hannah is debating between Norman and Mike's simultaneous proposals of marriage. Everyone in Lake Eden has an opinion on who she's going to choose, to the point where they are taking bets. When Hannah finds out about that, she blows up and tells them both *she'll* decide when she wants to get married, and in the meantime she wants things to go back to the way they were, which, shockingly, both men agree to. Hannah's youngest sister, Michelle, is back in town with a film crew: they're shooting a movie in Lake Eden, and one of Hannah's old high school crushes is back in town working on it as a producer. Ross had a crush on Hannah, too, and they rekindle their old friendship, much to the chagrin of Mike and Norman (smart move on Fluke's part, knowing she couldn't have Hannah marry either man without ticking off half of her fans, so she introduced a third dark horse). Everyone is super excited about the movie, a lot of the townsfolk are extras, Tracey is actually in the movie, and Hannah is providing snacks. Then, during a big suicide scene, the sleazy, womanizing director is accidentally killed when the prop gun is substituted out for the real thing.
Taking a break from Lake Eden for a bit, I finished Deborah Halber's "The Skeleton Crew", which was an interesting book about how amateur web sleuths are helping professionals solve cold cases involving missing persons and murder victims. The sheer number of missing persons in this country is staggering, and helping match up murder victims with those who have seemingly fallen off the face of the earth is an arduous task. A detective in Las Vegas had an idea of starting a website where he would post photos of murder victims (as long as they weren't too grisly) in the hopes that someone might recognize them. Others have started similar websites, and amazingly enough, there is a lot of infighting among the amateur sleuth crowd. Some people do it for purely altruistic reasons, but others are seeking acknowledgement and fame. They argue over whether or not they should be allowed to contact law enforcement and families directly or if their potential matches should be submitted to a panel who then decides whether or not to forward it to the authorities. And of course you can imagine how well law enforcement receive these tips. It's terrible that it has to be such a mess, but I can see the value in having as many eyes as possible trying to figure out who the murder victims are. Someone, *somewhere*, has to know who they are, right? It's very sad.
The tri-county fair has come to Eden Lake, and Hannah is serving on a panel of judges to award ribbons to baked goods. Michelle's entered the Miss Tri-County Beauty Pageant (not her idea, her mother signed her up for it and Michelle went along to be nice), and Andrea and her daughters are competing in a mother/daughter look a like contest. Everyone's having a lot of fun with the fair in town, until Hannah has the misfortune to discover yet another dead body (poor thing, all she wanted was a deep fried Milky Way. I feel you, girl). Fellow judge Willa was a mystery: apparently she had been married, and no one knew about it, or who her husband was. There was a discussion in the book about "real" key lime pies which reminded me of an episode of "Dexter", when he's trying to find the perfect key lime pie for Camilla, who is in hospice dying. She tells him real key lime pies aren't green, if they are the cook used food coloring, and Joanne tells us the same thing. I've never actually had a key lime pie (not a big fan of limes) but I'm super curious to try one now.
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