Itโs a case of cold feetโand cold-blooded murderโas 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull gets more than she bargained for after hosting an ill-fated wedding.
A wedding on picturesque Marthaโs Vineyard promises to be the affair of the season when Penny Arbuthnot asks her cousin, feisty 92-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull, if she can use her property for the reception. Victoria agreesโbut she has no idea whatโs in store for the hapless couple.
For one, Penny is seriously in debt and desperate to marry money. She thinks sheโs on the road to riches when she hooks Rocco Bufano, whose father is a multi-billionaire. But unbeknownst to Penny, Roccoโs been disowned by dad. Heโs also in hock up to his ears, and thinks heโs bagged the catch of a lifetime in a wealthy Vineyard native. He also knows that someone is out to kill him. In fact, several guests have a reason to off Rocco, among them an autistic savant with a prodigious knowledge of murder weapons.
Victoria has assumed the reception will be a modest lemonade-and-gingersnap affairโbut when a body is found in her cellar, it may be a happily-never-after in Widowโs Wreath, the fourteenth engaging installment in Cynthia Riggsโs beloved Marthaโs Vineyard mysteries.
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