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.