Renaissance Faire Mysteries

Coming in September 2008 - Wicked Weaves

ISBN: 978-0-425-22127-3

From Berkley Prime Crime

Hail ye, Hail ye and welcome to the Renaissance Faire Village. Here Assistant Professor Jessie Morton spends her summers honing her skills-- and finding the lady, lord or serf whodunit. Usually the summer flies by but this time she gets tangled in a deadly weave…

NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART

Jessie has been working as an apprentice to different artisans at the Renaissance Faire Village every summer since she graduated from college. But now that she's doing a Ph.D., it’s not just work, it’s research. This summer her apprenticeship is with Mary Shift—a master basket weaver who has a shop named Wicked Weaves, a dark past and a gift for creating a tightly woven basket.

Things appear to be going without a hitch, until one day a man is bid a deadly fare-thee-well with Mary’s signature basket weave wrapped around his neck. It's up to Jessie to spring Mary from the stocks of the Myrtle Beach police station. Yet innocence is hard to prove in a place where there’s a fine line between reality and good theater—and Jessie must work quickly before history repeats itself…
 

Renaissance recipes and facts included!

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