From Agatha Award-winning author Daryl Wood Gerber, the fourth in an
enchantingly whimsical series featuring Courtney Kelly, the owner of a
fairy-gardening and tea shop in Carmel, California. It's a special place
brimming with good vibes and the kind of magical assistance its
proprietor will need to investigate a shocking murder at a prestigious
art show!
Making fairy gardens, and teaching crafters how to do the same, keeps
Carmel-by-the-Sea shop owner Courtney Kelly busy--but sometimes she has
to make time for a wee bit of detective work . . .
With a theater foundation tea and an art show planned at Violet
Vickers's estate, Courtney is hired to create charming fairy gardens for
the event. It's not so charming, however, when her best friend Meaghan's
ex-boyfriend turns out to be Violet's latest artistic protégé. Even
worse, not long after Meaghan locks horns with him, his body is found in
her yard, bludgeoned with an objet d'murder.
There's a gallery of suspects, from an unstable former flame to an arts
and crafts teacher with a sketchy past. But when the cops focus on
Meaghan's business partner, who's like a protective older brother to
her, and discover he also has a secret financial motive, Courtney
decides to draw her own conclusions. Fearing they're missing the forest
for the trees, and with some help from Fiona the sleuthing fairy, she
hopes to make them see the light . . .
