While I applaud this series for trying something different with a Hallmark love interest, the way they ended this particular episode was infuriating. We have an established main character with a big-heart who consistently treats Norman poorly. This episode focuses on giving us a little more back-story on Mike and also letting Norman show a few new sides of himself, stregnthening his bond with Hannah. He straight up asks her out on Valentines day and she accepts. Then, after Mike asks her out too, she suddenly changes her plans in a surprise twist to have dinner with her mom and sister instead. This solves nothing. It is supposed to be a solution to not hurting anyone's feelings but it concretely is her cancelling her plans with Norman so she doesn't have to discourage Mike. He would be cancelled on either way. There isn't a lingering "decision" to be made, she clearly made it but is trying to be non-confrontational about it so she has a backup guy if things don't work out with Mike.....

Shameful. I hope Norman ends up with the assistant baker, she seems positive and delightful.

The murder twists were good in this episode though. Didn't actually see the ending coming. So good points for that!

The third entry in the Murder She Baked cozy mystery series on Hallmark, starring Alison Sweeney. In this episode a new bakery opens in the small town of Eden Lake which cuts in to Hannah's profits at The Cookie Jar. To make matters worse the new baker/owner is a college friend of detective Mike and his deceased wife!

Egged on by her family, Hannah orders one of the Magnolia bakery's famous peach cobblers, a supposed family recipe. Along with her family and the mayor, Hannah does a blind taste test in which Hannah's cobbler wins amongst all of the judges. At least two of the judges...including Hannah herself think the Magnolia's pie tastes familiar. That night Hannah figures out why and shares the reason with her sister, who in a fit of defending Hannah bursts out with the reason at the mayor's daughter's wedding rehearsal in front of most of the town. The baker of The Magnolia bakery leaves in tears with a proclamation that she will bring her cobblers to the wedding.

Day of the wedding Hannah does a good deed, someone ends up dead and for the first time Hannah is the prime suspect!!!!!

Valentine's Day is quickly approaching and our dentist Norman seems to be winning major points supporting and helping Hannah. Mike, our handsome detective, is avoiding Hannah because she is the prime suspect in his case.

Meanwhile the real mystery is who will be Hannah's date for the big day?

Sweet, funny and a must watch in the Murder She Baked series.

In this Murder She Baked: A Peach Cobbler Mystery, Hannah Swenson's profession of baker actually comes into play as part of the plot. In this case someone opens a rival bakery across the street and it will be a war for customers in the small town of Eden Falls, Minnesota. Rumor has it that rival Michelle Harrison just imports her stuff and it's not baked on premise. But that pales when Harrison is killed and Alison Sweeney is discovered over the body. Later on the gun that killed Harrison is found in Alison's bakery.

Sweeney is as usual caught between Cameron Mattis and Gabriel Hogan, she must feel like a volleyball at times. Her mother Barbara Niven has found a little romance with Roark Critchlow a guy that seems a bit too smooth. He's also got a connection to the sister of the late bakery rival also played by Michelle Harrison.

Those shots of all the baked goods in the shop. 1000 calories just for looking at it and on television too not live.

Fans of the series won't be disappointed.