Crafts and Life

After her dreams of romance are crushed, Piper Lamb decides to pursue her dream of opening her own shop of pickles and preserves, called Piper’s Picklings, in the idyllic small town of Cloverdale. But she isn’t in town long before she encounters a barrelful of trouble…

But things soon turn sour when fairgoers witness a fight between Amy’s boyfriend, Nate, and town council blowhard—and bagpipe player—Alan Rosemont. When Rosemont is found floating in Piper’s barrel, Nate becomes the prime murder suspect. With Amy’s boyfriend in a pretty pickle, there’s no time to dillydally. But as Piper searches for the real killer, she needs to be careful to preserve her own life…or she may end up a pickled Piper herself.

Piper Lamb has packed up her previous life and headed to the town she used to visit as a child (staying with her Aunt and Uncle), she has set up a shop called Piper's Picklings and with the help of the Sheriff's daughter (Amy) she is starting to build a client base.  Shortly after the opening there is a local fair and it is there that the trouble starts.  Firstly Amy's boyfriend gets into a shouting match with Alan Rosemont and then Rosemont is found dead, face down in Piper's Pickle Barrel! It turns out that Rosemont was not the most well liked of people and there is a decent list of potential suspects, but the Sheriff seems to be focused on Nate and Nate alone.  Piper and Amy need to dig deep (with the help of a few others) to make sure that Nate isn't jailed for a crime he didn't commit.