Crafts and Life

Community Craft proprietor Sammy Kane must piece together a patchwork of clues when a "live" mannequin ends up stone-cold dead.

Snowcapped pines and glittery dusted sidewalks adorn tranquil Heartsford, Wisconsin, while residents cuddle beneath heirloom quilts in front of cozy wood fires. But come the next day, the below-zero temperatures won't keep the locals away from Heartsford's annual Fire & Ice event. To boost customer traffic at Community Craft's one-night-only sale, Samantha "Sammy" Kane persuades a few of the craftspeople who sell their wares at the store to participate in a live mannequin window display contest.

Local quilter Wanda Wadsworth emerges as a favorite to win the contest, as she manages to not move a muscle for an unusual amount of time. Onlookers outside the window try everything to get her to crack–tapping on the glass and making funny faces–but nothing disrupts Wanda's stillness. When the eagle-eyed spectators realize Wanda isn't breathing, a blanket of grief and fear descends upon the wintry town.

Detective Liam Nash can't seem to piece the clues together. Fortunately, Sammy's cousin, Heidi, and her sister, Ellie, are on hand to reconvene their detective team, S.H.E. They set out to solve Wanda's untimely death before the case grows as icy as a sub-zero Wisconsin winter. But they are all too aware that the killer is too close for comfort.

Holly Quinn has done it again, another page turner of a book that leaves you wanting more and more!

It is the new year, the excitement of Christmas is over and people are planning to hunker down and keep warm, but there is one thing that most will come out for and that is the Fire and Ice festival, the shops stay open late, people wander round drinking warm (and in some cases spiked!) drinks and enjoy good food and a bonfire, oh and all the shops try to outdo each other with window displays that are festive and fun! This year Sammy and the team from the Community Craft shop are doing a live mannequin, whereby different craftspeople will spend 20 minutes at a time pretending to be shop mannequins – so not moving is the name of the game! It is all going well until Wanda, a local yoga teacher and quilter, ends up not as a live mannequin but a dead one! When they find out she was poisoned then the S.H.E team spring into action, only to have it back fire rather spectacularly!

Now can Sammy, Heidi and Ellie mend fences, build bridges and find out whodunnit or is this one case they can't crack?

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