Mortelle Saint-Valentin

This episode really develops various aspects of the triangle of Hannah, Mike and Norman. For one thing, we find out more about Mike's past, his late wife, and one of their mutual friends who also had a crush on Mike. Meanwhile, with Mike distracted by events, Norman has a chance to strengthen his relationship with Hannah.

We see the results of the murder at the start of the movie, and then there is a flashback of what leads up to it. These things take up about half the movie. Personally I hate this type of flashback. I also hate when the lead character, who is also an established upstanding citizen, is suspected of the murder. Yep, Hannah literally walks right into being a suspect.

I also hate when the protagonist ignores the law doing illegal things in the name of "helping" the investigation. Admittedly, Hannah has skirted the line on this in previous episodes, but this time ...

I have liked previous episodes of the series of movies, primarily because of Alison Sweeney. Hannah's heart is so big, it is hard not to like her. In this one, there were too many of my pet peeves, so I didn't care for it. However, many viewers without my prejudices will probably enjoy this one because there is so much going on.

With The Cookie Jar, Hannah Swensen has a tasty monopoly on the bakery business of Lake Eden, Minnesota. But when a rival store opens, and one of the owners is found shot to death in the store, Hannah is determined to prove that she wasn't the only one who had an axe to grind with the Quinn sisters. Somebody wasn't fooled by the Georgia Peaches and their sweet-as-pie act--and now it's up to Hannah to track down whoever had the right ingredients to whip up a murder.

Peach cobblers, competition between two bakeries and murder - a predictable but fun mystery which is well-paced, has good characters as well as nice setting and a good build up to the murder.

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.

Ignore the review before this one... that person was overly negative. There is so much bad stuff on TV and it is harmful to the heart and soul. This is a more wholesome program to watch that does not leave you feeling depleted like so much that is in TV programming. That's why I watch Hallmark to begin with. Television needs more Hallmark! What set is not fake...they are studio sets! This series is light and fun. I am from Minnesota so I had to look up where it was filmed and found out it was Canada and yet the cars in this series showed Minnesota license plates. They took care of the details! Anyway, yes, I would recommend watching it ...even my boyfriend got into watching it, although women are a primary audience. Heather

I have liked the first two episodes of Murder, She Baked. But this is the first episode that I genuinely enjoyed all the way through.

Hannah is understandably distraught when she comes upon another recently murdered body, especially when Hannah is being suspected of committing the murder.

While no one truly believes that Hannah is the murderer, it nonetheless lends an emotional undercurrent to the episode that is well played by everyone. Part of the interest of this episode is watching how different characters react.

Those looking for a solid, well plotted murder mystery should probably pass on all the episodes of Murder, She Baked. This show is a pleasing hodge podge of characters and emotions wrapped up in a murder mystery.

One of my favorite scenes was small town baker Hannah going to the big city of Minneapolis. Hannah is there to dig up dirt, to solve the murder. But Hannah becomes frazzled as everyone she questions is either oblivious to her charm or even worse, averse to her baked goods!

The seeming romantic triangle doesn't really work for me, but I did enjoy the emotional support that Hannah had from her sister and mother, in this episode. Barbara Niven as Hannah's mother was especially effective, I thought, playing a range of emotions from worried, to annoyed, to furious.