Andrea Todd

**Daugters**: Tracey Todd, Bethany Todd

**Mother**: Delores Swensen**Father**: Lars Swensen

**Sisters**: Hannah Swensen, Michelle Swensen

## Books

All Novels

**Andrea Swensen-Todd** is a character in *Hannah Swensen Mystery* series.

## Bio

She is the sister of Hannah and Michelle Swensen, the daughter of Delores Swensen, wife of Bill Todd, and mother of Tracey and Bethany. She is an agent at the Lake Eden Reality. In high school, she was head cheerleader and married Bill right after graduation.

### Personality

Andrea appears to be sophisticated and a bit uptight. She cares a great deal of her status and job, but she is also a caring mother, aware that she isn't as perfect as she likes to be seen. Unlike Hannah, she tends to get upset at the smallest of things and stresses out extremely easy and tries her hardest to make up for her faults.

She is also described as lacking patience and has a temper. She can be just as nosy and pushy, and like the rest of the Swensen sisters, stubborn to a fault. Andrea is also seen as charming and has no problem manipulating situations if its for the greater good.

### Appearance

Andrea is described in glowing terms with looks comparable to that of a fashionable model. Her blonde hair is always worn neatly and she believes in wearing "politically correct" fake fur to accent her expensive tastes. She was said to inherit her mothers petite looks.

## Chronology by Novel

### Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

Andrea stops by The Cookie Jar to request Hannah babysits Tracey while she tends to work, later showing up in a foul mood after losing her sale and realizing Hannah exposed Tracey to a murdered victim. After Hannah explains what Tracey really saw, she calms down.

Andrea helps Hannah with her investigations discovering some startling information about Norman's father in his dental practice. Andrea goes with Hannah in investigating what has happened with Max Turner, first at his house than at the Cozy Cow Dairy. However, Andrea finds herself unable to continue after they discover Max's body.

### Strawberry Shortcake Murder

In between showing listings and talking to people about letting her list their property, Andrea helps Hannah with her investigation.

Andrea helps Hannah by distracting one of the sheriff’s deputies guarding Danielle hospital room door so he won’t overhear what Hannah talks to Danielle about.

### Blueberry Muffin Murder

Andrea is thrilled that Connie Mac is the Celebrity guest for the Lake Eden Winter Carnival and insists on going with Hannah when she is roped into taking Connie Mac around on a “Lake Eden” tour. Eventually she takes over the tour so Hannah can get other things accomplished. Andrea is shocked and disappointed to discover what Connie Mac is really like.

But when Connie Mac is killed in Hannah’s shop, she jumps right in to help Hannah investigate, especially since her friend Jane is the prime suspect.

Andrea denies being pregnant, even though Hannah is positive that she is.

### Lemon Meringue Pie Murder

Andrea is pregnant, but hardly shows. When Hannah investigates Rhonda’s murder, Andrea jumps right in to help her. Andrea takes charge of creating a “Cookie Jar” float for the “4th of July” parade and wont tell Hannah what it is about. But then Andrea enlists daughter Tracy’s pre-school and the seniors from the “Senior Center” to help build it, so she doesn’t have much to do after creating the concept and over seeing it.

The float wins 1st place and Hannah donates the money, split between the pre-school and the Senior center. It is a giant cookie Jar that opens up and a platform raises with Tracy dressed as the “Statue of Liberty” coming up from the inside. Bill is inside the cookie Jar, raising and lowering the platform and overseeing Tracy. Mike pulls the float with his jeep. Several of the older pre-schoolers walk alongside the float with sandwich boards on that display cookies as they pass out cookies that Lisa had decorated.

### Fudge Cupcake Murder

Andrea is just about 2-weeks away from giving birth. Bill is driving Andrea crazy since he has been suspended from the Sheriff’s force, as the prime suspect in the Sheriff's murder. Andrea begs Hannah to investigate or at least prove that Bill is innocent so he can go back to work. Since Doc Knight has Andrea on restricted activity, Andrea does most of her help via her phone. Andrea is also worried about their mother becoming so mysteries about her doings and is suspicious of  Winthrop.

### Sugar Cookie Murder

Andrea eats her way through the buffet then helps Hannah investigate the murder while the entire town is stranded at the community center’s holiday buffet. While the snow is falling and the wind is blowing hard, Andrea declares that “it’s time” and Hannah and Norman drive her to the hospital where she has a baby girl that she names Bethany.

### Peach Cobbler Murder

Andrea is back to work part time and helps Hannah figure out who killed Shawna Lee Quinn the rest of the time. When it comes time to investigate  Winthrop, Andrea is right there with Hannah.

### Cherry Cheesecake Murder

When Andrea learns that Bill has to go to a Police fitness seminar in FL, she is upset that she can’t go with him. After all it is still winter and the tail end is always the hardest to deal with. But then she gets the news that a movie production will come to Lake Eden the same week so it cheers her up. When the director is killed, Andrea dives in with Hannah to determine who the killer is.

Her daughter Tracey wins a role in the movie, playing the lead actress when she was a young girl and the director tries to hit on Andrea.

Once the director dies, Andrea along with the rest of the gang, including Michelle, help Hannah investigate the murder.

### Key Lime Pie Murder

Andrea’s mother has entered her and Tracey in a mother-daughter, look alike contest at the Tri-County Fair and Bethany in the Beautiful baby contest.

When a local Edenite is murdered at the fair, Andrea helps Hannah discover the culprit, in between her and her daughters' appearances, Michelle's appearances and her monther’s Historical society booth.

Andrea and Tracy win their contest, but Bethany was disqualified for bad behavior.

### Carrot Cake Murder

Andrea helps out at the reunion and with assisting Hannah with the murder investigation.

### Cream Puff Murder

When Hannah can’t fit into the special order Regency dresses for their Mother’s launch party, Andrea talks Hannah into going to her fitness center with her early every morning. Despite Andrea’s hatred of getting up early, she is there for Hannah every step of the way, including the investigation into Ronni’s murder.
When her husband, the Sheriff is barred from the investigation because of his involvement with Ronni, Andrea is feeling insecure. But she does believe her husband when he says that an apparent compromising position was misinterpret. Hannah suspects that Ronni had manipulated Bill into that misinterpretation to be compromised. Andrea and Hannah find evidence that Bill was in the clear of Ronni’s murder as they investigate.

### Apple Turnover Murder

Andrea is upset, she is fearful that her husband is going to accept a job with Tachyon. 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

### Devil's Food Cake Murder

While Claire Rodgers is away on her honeymoon, Andrea and Delores are running her store.

While Andrea, Delores, Hannah and Michelle are at the Eagle dive bar trying to find clues to Paul Walters past, Andrea and Hannah are searching the office while Delores and Michelle are undercover as customers. Delores gives her name as Trixie and while dancing with “Hub Hubbard,” a frequent guests at the county lockup, she finds out that it was him behind the fake job offer that Sheriff Tood got in Apple Turnover Murder.

### Blackberry Pie Murder

When Bill arrests Hannah and throws her in jail, Andrea is furious and not sure she will ever forgive him.

### Wedding Cake Murder

Andrea and her mother, Delores plan and organize everything for Hannah's wedding while Hannah and Michelle are in the Food Channel's Dessert contest and investigating the murder of the head judge.

### Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder

Mayor Richard Bascomb is dead and Andrea not only finds his body but is the prime suspect, with no alibi.
Andrea spends a lot of time with Hannah, helping out some with the investigation but also learning to cook and bake.

## Trivia

* She is the middle sister.
* Her favorite cookies are Chocolate Chip Crunches.
* She was on the cheer-leading team back in school.
* Although she admits to being a terrible cook, she develops a talent for baking *Whippersnapper* cookies that Hannah loves and sells at The Cookie Jar.