It's summertime in Crystal Cove, California, and sales are brisk at the outdoor Food Fair. There's fresh bread, artisan cheese, gourmet cupcakes, plus Hanna's delicious pies. When despised local food critic Heath Barr is found stabbed to death, no one is sorry to hear the news - except perhaps Hanna, the main suspect. It doesn't help that Hanna's high school crush is the police chief. Hanna must track down a killer while up to her elbows in pie dough.