A Fete Worse Than Death

_Sisters Meg and Sarah Quilliam make sure guests feel right at home when they visit the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Located in upstate New York, Hemlock Falls is a small town renowned for its scenic beauty and scenes of crime…_Disaster strikes a mere week before the Hemlock Falls Ladies Auxiliary hosts the annual Spring Fete when the festival s chairwoman the redoubtable Adela Henry gives up her job in a huff. Who s going to judge the justly renowned Jell-O architecture contest? Or stop the members of the Craft Guild from sabotaging their rivals, the Crafty Ladies? More to the point, who s got the tact, diplomacy, and iron will necessary to organize the booths and settle quarrels over the programming?

Hemlock s mayor hopes to assure the fete s success when he recruits professional organizer Linda Connally and her staff to take over Adela s duties. But when Connally s body turns up in the trunk of a used car at Peterson s Automotive, Meg and Sarah are back in the detecting business…