Alison Sweeney will return to the small screen as everyone’s favorite baker-turned-detective Hannah Swensen in the new Hallmark mystery A Sprinkle of Deceit: A Hannah Swensen Mystery. She will be joined by Victor Webster, who plays Eden Lake’s handsome lead prosecutor Chad Norton.
Both actors promoted the Hallmark movie on social media.
“All new Hannah Swensen mystery!” Alison Sweeney wrote on Instagram. “[Can] Hannah solve the mystery and cater a high school reunion party at the same time?! Check out the all new A Sprinkle of Deceit: A Hannah Swensen Mystery.”
Co-star Victor Webster weighed in with, “Yes!!! Had a ton of fun filming this…as usual.”
New Hannah Swensen
In the new Hannah Swensen movie, Hannah (Alison Sweeney) is hired to cater a high school reunion. But when one of the guests is found dead, she must help Chad (Webster) find the murderer.
Hallmark mystery
Based on the books by author Joanne Fluke, the movie series includes the following films:
Murder, She Baked: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery
Murder, She Baked: A Plum Pudding Mystery
Murder, She Baked: A Peach Cobbler Mystery
Murder, She Baked: A Deadly Recipe
Murder, She Baked: Just Desserts
Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery
Carrot Cake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery
A Zest for Death: A Hannah Swensen Mystery
One Bad Apple: A Hannah Swensen Mystery
Cameron Mathison
Until recently, Cameron Mathison played Hannah’s love interest, Detective Mike Kingston. But the pair broke off their engagement in Carrot Cake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery.
In an interview with TV Insider, Alison Sweeney talked about the changes in Hannah and Mike’s relationship.
“Mike is attracted to Hannah and her crime-solving ways, her mind, the fact that she is so interested, the fact that she’s good at it,” she said. “She does get people to talk to her in a way that sometimes Mike or other detectives aren’t able to get them to open up. She does have really good instincts and a unique way of getting people to open up to her. I think the cookies help. Mike respects that, and he loves that about her, but it causes him a lot of trouble at work, and for good reasons and maybe also not-so-good reasons, the sheriff isn’t too keen to have Hannah getting involved in the crime-solving business. So that’s been a tricky thing for [Mike] to navigate. And unfortunately, I think Mike is a little old school, so he struggles with how much of that to share with Hannah.”
Victor Webster
Victor Webster joined the series as Chad Norton in One Bad Apple: A Hannah Swensen Mystery. He and Sweeney have great chemistry and even played a couple in Halmark Channel’s The Wedding Veil series.