Murder Can Haunt Your Handiwork Book Excerpt

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A Gilded Age ghost helps psychic painter Celeste Cabot catch a killer . .

Murder Can Haunt Your Handiwork (A Haunted Craft Fair Mystery)

by Rose Pressey

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Murder Can Haunt Your Handiwork (A Haunted Craft Fair Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Publisher: Kensington (December 29, 2020)
Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages

Rising up against the beautiful backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Biltmore Estate is a magnificent mansion in Asheville, North Carolina, built as a summer home for George Washington Vanderbilt II—yes, of those Vanderbilts—during the Gilded Age. Nowadays, it’s the site of an annual craft fair. Unfortunately, it’s also about to become a crime scene . . .

Celeste is hard to miss as she pulls up with her pink and white Shasta trailer and adorable Chihuahua, Van Gogh—Van for short. But before she can show off her artwork at the fair, a tour guide is found strangled by a velvet rope barrier and a valuable painting goes missing. With a rogues’ gallery of sketchy suspects, Celeste welcomes the help of a pair of handsome detectives—and a ghost with a special interest in the case . . .

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Excerpt from Murder Can Haunt Your Handiwork

I was kind of getting upset now, because I honestly had nothing to do with this. I felt like it should be somewhat evident. Just because I’d been in the room with the woman, hovering over her dead body, didn’t mean that I had actually killed her. By now, I was pretty sure her death was a murder.

“I hope you know that I’m not making this up. I really lost my keys,” I said.

He gave me a skeptical look. Maybe I should stop talking. It seemed like the more I said, the worse I made this for myself. It didn’t help that other officers in the room were eyeing me as if I were guilty. At least that was the way I felt. Maybe it was just me being paranoid.

A pair of familiar male voices caught my attention.

Pierce and Caleb appeared in the hallway. We all made eye contact, and I grimaced. They stepped into the room and walked toward me. Talk about handsome . . . each man was a tall glass of water. Pierce, with his raven-colored hair, ever-changing hazel eyes, and chiseled features, had a mysterious edge. Caleb had caramel-colored hair with streaks of light blond; his eyes as blue as a cloud-

less summer day, which always made me happy. Had they coordinated their outfits today? Both men wore khaki pants and white Polo shirts. I’d been so accustomed to seeing Pierce in a suit, I found it a strange to see him dressed somewhat casually.

Both men were in law enforcement, so it was no surprise to see them at the scene. However, this wasn’t their jurisdiction. The two had a rivalry that I had yet to explain. It seemed as if they were getting along just fine right now, though. Possibly because they’d heard I was involved in some kind of incident. They hurried over to me.

“Celeste, what’s going on?” Pierce asked.

“I found the woman,” I said. “I came back in to find my keys, and there she was on the floor. Everyone else had left her, so I had to do something.”

“Excuse me, Pierce, but may I speak with you?” The dark-haired officer wiggled his index finger, gesturing for Pierce to come closer.

Pierce stepped away with the officer, leaving me alone with Caleb.

“Are you all right?” Caleb asked.

I blew the hair out of my eyes. “Yes, I’ll be fine. It was certainly shocking. I just can’t believe this happened. At first, they thought I had something to do with it. I still think they might be suspicious.”

“Well, that’s only natural, considering there was a body found, and they caught you standing over it.”

I winced. “You heard about that, huh?”

“Yes, I heard about it,” he said.

About Rose Pressey

Rose Pressey is the USA Today bestselling author of the Haunted Craft Fair Mysteries and the Haunted Vintage Mystery Series. She enjoys writing quirky and fun novels with a paranormal twist. The paranormal has always captured her interest. The thought of finding answers to the unexplained fascinates her.

When she’s not writing about werewolves, vampires, and every other supernatural creature, she loves eating cupcakes with sprinkles, reading, spending time with family, and listening to oldies from the fifties. Yeah, she loves Elvis. She can’t help myself.

Rose lives in the beautiful commonwealth of Kentucky with her husband, son, and three sassy Chihuahuas.

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