Murder in a Basket

She's dressed in pioneer garb and running a face-painting booth—not exactly college librarian India Hayes's ideal way to display her artistic skill. Still, working her town's Founder's Festival beats getting grief from her officious committee-running sister. Until India finds basketmaker Tess Ross bludgeoned to death by one of her own basket molds.

India is sure that one of the prime suspects—a hapless library worker who is also Tess's son—is innocent. But proving it means going head-to-head with the prickly group battling for custody of Tess's labradoodle, Zach, who's due to inherit a multimillion-dollar estate. Now as India sleuths through a mess of crafter egos, blackmail and one strange cold case, she's seeing a pattern for murder that could be a lethal careerender…