Plotting at the PTA

Good thing Beth Kennedy likes to multi-task. As a PTA secretary, children's bookstore owner, and single mom, Beth has to work hard to schedule time for sleuthing…

Beth is excited about the spring PTA project—the Senior Story Session, which pairs elderly residents of Sunny Rest Assisted Living with Tarver Elementary students to produce a book that the PTA can sell as a fundraiser.

But her enthusiasm is dampened when she discovers one of her regular customers at the bookstore, Amy Jacobson, has died from bee stings. What are bees doing out so unseasonably early in Wisconsin—and why wouldn't Amy, who was deathly allergic, have taken greater care to avoid them?

Now it's up to Beth to get the buzz on who used killer bees to send Amy Jacobson to her eternal rest…