Crafts and Life

Venus Thibodeaux had a reputation for being trouble. Some said she started at birth. When she finally left Sinful shortly after turning eighteen, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When she blew back into town four years later, no one was happy about her return. She immediately launched into her same old scams, picking off Sinful residents with ease before disappearing again as quickly as she’d appeared.

But when an accident at the annual Thanksgiving Turkey Run uncovers her body, everyone Venus took for a ride becomes a suspect. The man at the top of that list sees the writing on the wall and hires Fortune to figure out who killed Venus, before he goes to prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie start poking around into Venus’s complicated life, hoping to find the killer. And to solve their first official case.

Nothing in Sinful is straightforward or goes to plan! Take the Thanksgiving Turkey Run, anywhere else it would be … well a run! Maybe 5k, maybe 3 times around the school playing fields, but in Sinful? Not a chance, the turkey run involves running after wild turkeys! in the school playground and it is mainly children, okay 11 children and Gertie, oh and 10 turkeys.  Gertie normally doesn't do too well (which is why they allow her to keep participating with the only grumbles coming from people like Celia), but this year she has managed to grab one, then it escapes and she chases it down, only to disturb a building site, the problem is the building site has someone buried under the concrete and now the Turkey Run has become a crime scene.

When they figure out who it is the list of people wanting her dead could run into the whole of Sinful and probably a lot of New Orleans as well, but the person who apparently saw her last is Whiskey from The Swamp Bar, now he has hired Fortune (and by extension Gertie and Ida Belle) to find out who killed Venus, or at least to prove that he didn't!