Crafts and Life

With opening day of Material Girl approaching, Poly is stocking up on lush fabrics, colorful notions, and best of all, a proprietary weave of velvet. But upon delivery, it’s not quite the blend she expected, being ninety-percent silk and ten-percent corpse. Crushed under a dozen bolts of fabric is Phil Girard. His wife, Genevieve, local tea shop owner and close friend of Poly, is the prime suspect.

Granted, Phil may not have been the perfect husband, but surely Genevieve had no reason to kill him! There’s just the small matter of Genevieve’s own incriminating confession: I’m afraid I killed my husband. Now, as Material Girl’s grand opening looms, Poly is torn between a friendship pulling apart at the seams—and finding a smooth killer with a velvet touch…

Everything should be going as smooth as silk for Poly Monroe, but nothing could be further from the truth!

The company she hired to remove the old, rusted signage and replace with her brand new have been putting her off, finally they turn up at the same time as her delivery of custom blend velvet, there are a couple or so problems with the latter though, the driver of the van isn't her friend Genevieve's husband Phil,  the fabric isn't what she ordered … oh and Phil is dead underneath it!

Now Genevieve is suspect number one and so Poly, along with Charlie, is determined to find out what happened, oh and at the same time she is re-vamping Genevieve's Tea Totallers, and trying to get her own shop ready, the problem is at every turn it is looking worse and worse for the widow, now all Poly needs to do is stay alive for long enough for her grand opening!