Itβs a case of cold feetβand cold-blooded murderβas 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull gets more than she bargained for after hosting an ill-fated wedding.
A wedding on picturesque Marthaβs 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 agreesβbut she has no idea whatβs in store for the hapless couple.
For one, Penny is seriously in debt and desperate to marry money. She thinks sheβs on the road to riches when she hooks Rocco Bufano, whose father is a multi-billionaire. But unbeknownst to Penny, Roccoβs been disowned by dad. Heβs also in hock up to his ears, and thinks heβs 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 affairβbut when a body is found in her cellar, it may be a happily-never-after in Widowβs Wreath, the fourteenth engaging installment in Cynthia Riggsβs beloved Marthaβs Vineyard mysteries.
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