Crafts and Life

It's the holiday season, but not everyone is jolly–especially not Vonne Barnett. Her dead body has been found near Victoria Square. Katie Bonner, the manager of Artisan’s Alley, happens to be at the tea shop Vonne's mother, Francine, owns when the news is delivered.

Vonne left a trail of men behind her so the suspects are many–but the clues are few. A broken teacup leads Katie to one of the suspects, but before she can investigate, she’s attacked. Katie may be closing in on a killer, but time is ticking because the killer is definitely closing in on her.

Katie Bonner has a lot on her plate, and we are NOT talking Christmas Dinner here! Her mother in law is coming to stay, Artisan's Alley is swamped, but they have a problem with a shoplifter and the little darlings from the dance school are over excited and causing problems.  She isn't sure what is going on with Andy and her good friend Ray is worried about one of his daughters, but all that becomes insignificant when she is at Francine and Vonne's tea shop when Detective Schuler arrives with the sad news that Francine's daughter Vonne died in a car accident …. only they discover shortly afterwards that she was dead before and the accident was staged.

Now Katie has to cope with Francine (who wants Katie to buy her out of the tea shop) along with everything else – but even that takes a back seat when she is deliberately run over! Now she needs to manage a leg that has been rebuilt, crutches and try and find out the truth about a lot of people so that Yule can be the time of joy it should be!