What A Picture's Worth

Description for WHAT A PICTURE'S WORTH by Susan Page Davis:

Fredo Benson, a talented but reclusive artist, is one of the most successful vendors in Shannon McClain's craft market in Apple Grove, Oregon.  But he also harbors a dark and deadly secret.

When Shannon locks up Benson's loft studio late on night, she discovers detailed sketches of Paisley mansion, the home she inherited from her grandmother.  The sketches could only have been drawn from sessions within the walls of the stately mansion; obviously Benson has been inside the hoe with neither Shannon's knowledge nor permission.

Before Shannon, a recent transplant from her native Scotland, can confront Benson she and her son, Alec, stumble onto a gruesome murder mystery---obviously one with Shannon, her home, and family at its epicenter.  Even as Shannon and Jack Grayson, Apple Grove's chief of police, try to connect the dots between the murder and several break-ins at paisley mansion, the mystery's path takes one dangerous twist after another.

Could the link possibly be the vintage Art Deco beaded purse that Shannon has been contracted to restore?  The purse is from the 1920s and valuable in its own right.  But does it somehow contain the key that will unlock this tale of violence and intrigue?

Whatever drove the killer to strike once is still wending its way to Paisley mansion's front door.

Will Shannon discover the secret in time to avert another tragedy?  Only time will tell in this latest mystery to hit the otherwise peaceful town of Apple Grove.

This is #4 in A Creative Woman Mystery Series.