Crafts and Life

At the annual Victorian Home and Garden Tour, Lighthouse Cove, California’s premier contractor, Shannon Hammer, realizes that the competition is about to turn deadly….
 
Shannon is in high demand among rival homeowners, who will do anything to win Best in Show. One-upmanship and even espionage break out among neighbors, construction crews, decorators, and landscapers. Thanks to several new hires, Shannon is sure she can handle the extra load—until murder throws a wrench in the works.
 
The small town’s corrupt building inspector is found dead on one of Shannon’s jobsites, and soon plenty of suspects are coming out of the woodwork. When another body is discovered, Shannon calls on her team of close friends and devilishly astute thriller writer Mac to help her nail down the details and build a case against the killer before the door shuts on someone else—for good.

Shannon and her team have been called in by various homeowners to spruce up their houses before the annual Home and Garden competition, with one of them Shannon and one of her Foremen (Wade) are seriously wondering about actually turning down the work, Petsy Jorgenssen is snooty, short tempered and quite frankly rude! But with a new female carpenter/wood carver eager to have a go at repairing the damage to some walls they stick with it.  

It would help if the local incompetent building Inspector wasn't dogging Shannon's steps on every job (including one she has filed the permits for but not actually started!) but when he ends up dead Shannon and her friends end up trying to figure out why he was killed and whodunnit.