Meg Lanslow and her husband Michael Waterson are teaching blacksmithing and theater respectfully at Meg's grandmother Cordelia's art center in the mountains of Virginia called the Biscuit Mountain Craft Center. Her grandfather with his photographer assistant is teaching nature photography. But nowhere Meg goes that murder doesn't follow and soon the despised art teacher Edward Prine is found by Meg with a knife in the back.
They were already dealing with a vandal who turned up the kiln and messed up the pottery, left the windows open on a rainy day and got the watercolors class's pictures destroyed, as well as poured paint on the art classes paintings, and then messed up the photography for the nature class, That was all last week. They had hoped the vandal left with those students. Then someone put S & M lingerie on the clotheslines in the children's theater class. Some of the teachers are new, but some are the same. The same with the students, which makes it hard to figure out who is doing the vandalism.
Cordelia suspects that the Jazz Hands Company which holds a summer program is possibly behind the vandalism because they are threatening to sue her for opening a summer craft program in the area. The other suspect is Smith Corporation who wants to buy her land and develop it. They could be getting someone, either a student or teacher, to sabotage the Craft Center. Some of the teachers worked at the Jazz Hands Company at one point or another including Prine.
Also, a few of the teachers were involved in a venture with Prine where they put in what money they could and worked if they couldn't contribute as much money. The idea was to open a craft store and cut out the middleman and make more profit for themselves. But Prine, who put the most money in cut out early, taking his money with him and the venture failed. Some are still in debt and haven't recovered from it and one lost his marriage to it.
A student is killed in the pottery room and found by Meg. Then there's also the case of the picture Prine took of some gull's thought to be extinct that her grandfather wants her to figure out where they are. Between that and the vandalism and the murders, Meg's got her work cut out for her in this delightful mystery that will keep you guessing right up till the end. I give this book four out of five stars.
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