ABOUT BEST SERVED COLD: A HANNAH SWENSEN MYSTERY
When a suspect in a forgery case is murdered and the prosecutor goes missing, Hannah and Chad must uncover how the two cases are connected and solve them in time for the trial.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR BEST SERVED COLD: A HANNAH SWENSEN MYSTERY
May 16, 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF BEST SERVED COLD: A HANNAH SWENSEN MYSTERY
Director: Peter Benson
Cast:
Alison Sweeney as Hannah
Victor Webster as Chad
Barbara Niven as Delores
BRAN'S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Delores is up to something! She places a smoke bomb under a car and then goes into this coin shop. The smoke bomb goes off which sends the worker out there.
Hannah hears about a missing cop named Lucas. So she goes to bring his wife some baked goods. She asks Hannah for her help. She says her husband's fishing gear isn't even gone!
To make matters weirder, a dead body is found. It's not Lucas though. It's the body of a con-man....the owner of the coin place. Suspicious.
Hannah is on the case. She sees the wife of Lucas at the grocery store and she's laughing. She finds that suspicious. She goes down to Lucas' favorite fishing spot and ends up coming across one of his boots and his work laptop down by the water. Weird.
One night, someone throws a brick through Hannah's window that says "stay out of my business!".
Delores ends up being the star witness in the coin case because of her sleuthing and she's great.
After court that night, Hannah gets a call from Lucas' wife. She thinks Lucas has been there recently. Stuff is messy in a cupboard and his office chair is weird. Hannah finds a number for someone named Rod under a little gift box which is also next to a box of cigars that happens to be the same cigar shop the coin guy was found dead at. She finds that the number is attached to the golf club. So she goes there and finds out that this Rod guy is staying at the golf club. She suspects that Rod might be Lucas. So she goes to confront him. Turns out it is him and he explains that these bad guys were after him. He owed them money. He was worried that if it came out that he was in a bunch of gambling debt, the coin fraud case would've been thrown out. He needed Chad to take over the case.
Chad figures out that the wife of the con-man murdered him with almonds but he needs help proving that. So he calls Hannah and tells her to come in and look at pictures of the cheesecake the wife had made right before her husband's passing. She said the crust had almonds in it.
Chad and Hannah go out to celebrate and it comes out that Chad's mom was a baker and she would've loved Hannah and they kiss big time.