Crafts and Life

It’s autumn in Santa Fe, and Ellen Rosings is planning her Aunt Nat’s wedding at the Wisteria Tearoom. Her progress is derailed by a dead body—yes, another one—that she finds in her aunt’s driveway.

Between the dreams, the looming wedding, work pressures and a tenacious case of hiccups, Ellen fears she’s unraveling. Then a gem-handled knife is left embedded in Nat’s door, and Ellen knows she must solve the artist’s death before another crime strikes closer to home.

Phew! another great addition to the Wisteria Tearoom series 😀

Ellen and Nat are making preparations for Nat and Manny's upcoming wedding, including Ellen making the dresses for both Nat and herself, one of the things Nat wants on the dresses are some silver buttons, she has seen some at the local flea market and so Nat and Ellen head there.  Whilst Nat is shortlisting the buttons Ellen has a wander around some of the other stalls, including one where a young man is selling inlaid knives.  Before she gets a chance to talk to him to see if he does other metal work Nat calls her over, the rest of the day is spent sewing and having a good time together, which screeches to a halt when Ellen gets outside to her car and finds a dead body behind it!

It turns out that the dead body is that of the young man with the stall of knives, with Tony on another case Ellen needs to deal with a new detective and the stress of everything has caused a major bout of hiccups! Now Ellen keeps dreaming of the young man who keeps holding out one of his knives, so if she is going to be fit and well for Nat's wedding she needs to sort everything out pronto!