It’s late March in
Fairhope, Alabama, and artists from around the country are flocking to
the bayside town’s Arts & Crafts Festival. The annual
tradition has something for everyone, only this year, the main attraction
is murder . . .
Cleo Mack’s life has
been a whirlwind since she inadvertently became the executive director
of Harbor Village, a retirement community bustling with energetic
seniors. Juggling apartment sales, quirky residents, and a fast-moving
romance is tricky business. But on-the-job stress develops a new
meaning when Twinkle Thaw, a portrait artist known to ruffle a few
feathers, arrives unannounced for the weekend’s festival and
drops dead hours later—mysteriously poisoned . . .
Twinkle’s bizarre death doesn’t seem like an
accident. Not with a sketchy newcomer slinking around town and a
gallery of suspects who may have wanted her out of the picture for
good. As Cleo brushes with the truth, she soon finds that solving the
crime could mean connecting the dots between a decades-old art heist
and an unpredictable killer who refuses to color inside the lines . . .