Bill Todd

**Daughters**: Tracey and Bethany

**Mother**: Regina Anatolia Todd**Father**: Unnamed

**Brother**: Unnammed?

**Aunt**: Patsy Diehl**Aunts**: (mother’s side): Martinique Renée, Dona Esmeralda,

## Books

at least mentioned in all Books

**Bill Todd** is a character in the *Hannah Swensen Mystery* series*.*

## Bio

*He married Hannah's sister, Andrea and together they had Tracey and Bethany.*

He works with Mike Kingston as a fellow detective beneath Sheriff Grant until the Fudge Cupcake Murder when he was elected as the new Sheriff.

At Jordan High School he was a star football player and Andrea was a cheerleader when they started dating. They were married right after Andrea graduated.

### Family

Mother: Regina Anatolia
Aunts (mother’s side): Martinique Renée, Dona Esmeralda,
The rest of his family is never named.

### Personality

Bill is a kind and caring father but is usually very busy due to his job. He is highly considerate towards others and works hard, but he is unaware that his efforts to make things easier on Andrea only earn her discontent at times. He is also aware of how stubborn the Swensen family is, so while he does wish Hannah wouldn't get so involved with their crime solving, he doesn't try to force her to stay out of it.

### Appearance

He is described as being a well-toned football player in school, but his waist has thickened from the donuts he's eaten over time. However he is still considered handsome and has no problem attracting attention. In contrast to his wife's fair appearance, he has brown hair and eyes.

## Relationships

### Andrea Todd

They have a very close and loving relationship. They never argue, although he does worry over her a fair amount and is always ready to support her in times of need. Like Andrea, he is viewed as being very good-looking to the opposite sex and is able to use this as a form of persuasion if he really had to. But unlike Andrea, he isn't too happy about it.

### Hannah Swensen

Bill and Hannah get along like good friends. As Andrea's older sister, he trusts Hannah dearly and appreciates all of her efforts.

### Mike Kingston

His partner at work, they get along like old-friends. At times he does not share his views about their cases when it comes to Hannah's involvement, but he has made it obvious that he would prefer Hannah marrying Mike over Norman.

## Chronology by Novel

Bill is frequently mentioned through the series, but only plays a larger role in the following novels.

### Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

Bill appears gradually throughout the first book working with Hannah to find evidence after Ron's death.

After the murder was solved, Sheriff Grant promoted him to Detective to work with Mike Kingston the new supervisory detective.

### Fudge Cupcake Murder

Sheriff Grant has been murdered and Mike as acting Sheriff, sidelines Bill from work. Bill nearly begs Hannah to either find him an alibi or find the murder so he can get back on the job.

In the meantime while he is waiting he is cleaning the house and driving his very pregnant wife crazy.

Hannah finally finds him an alibi so he can get back to the investigation into the Sheriff's murder.

### Apple Turnover Murder

Tachyon headquarters is Florida and she doesn’t want to move away from her family and friends. Well, neither does **Bill** so he turns them down. But Tachyon just comes back with a big and better offer. Each time Bill turns them down the offers escalate, to the point that Hannah becomes suspicious and ask Bill, through Andrea if he had ever called Tachyon to see if the person that is calling him is legitimate. When Bill follows up on the suggestion, he finds that the person calling him has nothing to do with Tachyon.

Bill and Mike put some procedures in place to trap the person calling Bill, but they don't get anywhere, until Delores discovers who was behind it in, Devil's Food Cake Murder.

### Blackberry Pie Murder

When a warrant is issued for the arrest of Hannah Bill has no choice but to arrest her. When Mike Kingston refuses to follow his orders he has to suspend him without pay.