Murder at The Arts and Crafts Festival
It’s late March in Fairhope, Alabama, and artists from around the country are flocking to the bayside town’s Arts & Crafts Festival. The annual tradition has something for everyone; only this year, the main attraction is murder.
Cleo Mack’s life has been a whirlwind since she inadvertently became the executive director of Harbor Village, a retirement community bustling with energetic seniors. Juggling apartment sales, quirky residents, and a fast-moving romance is tricky business. On-the-job stress develops a new meaning when Twinkle Thaw, a portrait artist known to ruffle a few feathers, arrives unannounced for the weekend’s festival and drops dead hours later—mysteriously poisoned.
Twinkle’s bizarre death doesn’t seem like an accident. Not with a sketchy newcomer slinking around town and a gallery of suspects who may have wanted her out of the picture for good. As Cleo brushes with the truth, she soon finds that solving the crime could mean connecting the dots between a decades-old art heist and an unpredictable killer who refuses to color inside the lines.
Series: A Cleo Mack Mystery – Book #3
Author: G.P. Gardner
Genre: Cozy Mystery/Hobby
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Page Count: 225
Rating: 
From Lyrical Press comes the third book in the “A Cleo Mack Mystery” cozy mystery series by G.P. Gardner Murder at The Arts and Crafts Festival. A fun and profoundly intriguing story that will leave readers stunned.
In this new cozy mystery, Cleo has issues, not only does she have a retirement community that is still recovering from a murder a few months previously, some very rambunctious residents. But now there is the arts and crafts fair which leads to the death of an artist. She isn’t sure what to do or how to help, but she knows that she has to find the culprit before things get out of hand.
The characters in this cozy mystery series are always a delight. They make readers want to retire and live in Fairhope so that they can watch the mischief these characters get into. The plot keeps you on your toes, and if readers don’t pay attention, they will miss vital clues as to the killer’s identity. Even though I knew who it was before the end of the book, this story kept me second-guessing myself. Murder at The Arts and Crafts Festival is a fast-paced action attention-grabbing story with enough red herrings and twists so that readers will be happy until the very end.
I am happy to see this cozy mystery series expanding, and I hope it continues for many more books to come. I enthusiastically recommend this series to readers who enjoy all types of mysteries and cozies.
If readers enjoyed this cozy mystery, they might also enjoy Holly Quinn’s https://www.authorhollyquinn.com/ “A Handcrafted Mystery” https://www.thecozyreview.com/a-crafter-knits-a-clue/ or Mollie Cox Bryan’s http://molliecoxbryan.com/ series “A Cora Crafts Mystery” https://www.thecozyreview.com/no-charm-intended/.
About the Author:
GP Gardner lives in Fairhope, Alabama, with her writer husband and a once-feral cat. Her short stories have appeared in several regional publications. Now she writes mysteries and draws pictures. She is addicted to Sudoku and never gives up on a puzzle until it’s solved. She enjoys creating zentangles—a pen-and-ink version of daydreaming. And like Cleo’s neighbor Ann, she’s a knitter and designed Ann’s Fairhope Scarf.
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