Cynthia Riggs. (2018). Widow's Wreath: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS.

Cynthia Riggs. 2018. Widow's Wreath: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS.

Cynthia Riggs, Widow's Wreath: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS, 2018.

Cynthia Riggs. Widow's Wreath: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery. CROOKED LANE BOOKS, 2018.

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   • bioText: Cynthia Riggs is the author of fourteen books in the Martha’s Vineyard mysteries featuring 92-year-old poet, Victoria Trumbull. She was born on Martha’s Vineyard and is the eighth generation to live in her family homestead, which she runs as a bed and breakfast catering to poets, writers, and other creative people. She has a degree in geology from Antioch College and an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College. For 20 years she held a US Coast Guard Masters License (100-ton vessels). In May 2013, she married Howard Attebery, who came back into her life after sixty-two years. Howard died in 2017.
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It’s a case of cold feet—and cold-blooded murder—as 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull gets more than she bargained for after hosting an ill-fated wedding.
A wedding on picturesque Martha’s Vineyard promises to be the affair of the season when Penny Arbuthnot asks her cousin, feisty 92-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull, if she can use her property for the reception. Victoria agrees—but she has no idea what’s in store for the hapless couple.
For one, Penny is seriously in debt and desperate to marry money. She thinks she’s on the road to riches when she hooks Rocco Bufano, whose father is a multi-billionaire. But unbeknownst to Penny, Rocco’s been disowned by dad. He’s also in hock up to his ears, and thinks he’s bagged the catch of a lifetime in a wealthy Vineyard native. He also knows that someone is out to kill him. In fact, several guests have a reason to off Rocco, among them an autistic savant with a prodigious knowledge of murder weapons.
Victoria has assumed the reception will be a modest lemonade-and-gingersnap affair—but when a body is found in her cellar, it may be a happily-never-after in Widow’s Wreath, the fourteenth engaging installment in Cynthia Riggs’s beloved Martha’s Vineyard mysteries.

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   • source: Manhattan Book Review
   • content: "Riggs opens up important topics in a thought-provoking mystery."
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews on Bloodroot
   • content: "Riggs, who describes the beauties of her acerbic sleuth’s island home as lovingly as ever, provides a...satisfying conclusion."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly on Touch-Me-Not
   • content: "Delightful...a cozy that celebrates the springtime beauty of the island as well as its quirky, endearing residents."
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   • source: Booklist on Death and Honesty
   • content: "Riggs’ character development and her lovely descriptions will have readers longing for both a trip to Martha’s Vineyard and the next book in the series."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly on Indian Pipes
   • content: "Lovely descriptions of the Vineyard in the fall, plenty of suspenseful action and a cast of eccentric supporting characters...help make this another winner."
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     April 16, 2018
     At the outset of Riggs’s uneven 14th Martha’s Vineyard mystery (after 2017’s Trumpet of Death), 92-year-old Victoria Trumbull, a deputy in the West Tisbury police force, is preparing to host the wedding reception of her 25-year-old cousin, Penny Arbuthnot, when an electrician working in her house finds a body hanging from a beam in the cellar. Much of the plot revolves around discovering the identity of the deceased and resolving complicated relationships among the family of Penny’s fiancé, Rocco Buffano, who has a debt problem and knows someone wants to kill him. Forthright and down-to-earth Victoria, who exemplifies Yankee can-do practicality, steals the show. Evocative descriptions of the island’s natural beauty and quaint towns make up in part for the underdeveloped supporting characters. Even Penny—impulsive, ditzy, and living a fantasy whose Mr. Right is very obviously all wrong—lacks depth and distinction, despite being a near-perfect foil for Victoria. This entry is strictly for series fans. Agent: Paula Munier, Talcott Notch Literary Agency.

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     May 1, 2018
     A favor for a relative involves a poet and sleuth in yet another murder.At 92, Victoria Trumbull (Trumpet of Death, 2017, etc.) has lived her whole life in a big old house on beautiful Martha's Vineyard. When her distant cousin Penny Arbuthnot asked to hold her wedding there, Victoria agreed, but now she's shocked to discover it's a huge extravaganza with tents, sound systems, and more than 200 guests. And then the electrician wiring the ceremony finds a body wrapped in a sheet hanging in the seldom-used cellar. Though Penny and her fiance, Rocco Bufano, each think the other is wealthy, Penny's maxed out her credit and Rocco's been disowned by his father, Giovanni Bufano, whose Mafia connections make him dangerous. The murder victim, whom Rocco claims not to know, looks amazingly like Rocco himself, and Rocco worries that the man may have been killed by one of his own creditors as a warning to pay up. On the island for the wedding are Rocco's brother, Dominic, who arrives at Victoria's house dead drunk, and his two stepbrothers, Cosimo and Caesar. All the friends Rocco's invited to fill out the groom's side hate him, and they're all planning his demise--though he's such a narcissist that he has no idea so many people wish him dead. Since they all turn up at Victoria's sooner or later, the police use her and the island's gossip network as fonts of information while wondering if Rocco will escape death long enough for them to find the killer.Riggs' heroine has a smaller role than usual in an exciting and twisted tale of hatred and family honor that will keep you guessing until the end.

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A wedding on picturesque Martha’s Vineyard promises to be the affair of the season when Penny Arbuthnot asks her cousin, feisty 92-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull, if she can use her property for the reception. Victoria agrees—but she has no idea what’s in store for the hapless couple.
For one, Penny is seriously in debt and desperate to marry money. She thinks she’s on the road to riches when she hooks Rocco Bufano, whose father is a multi-billionaire. But unbeknownst to Penny, Rocco’s been disowned by dad. He’s also in hock up to his ears, and thinks he’s bagged the catch of a lifetime in a wealthy Vineyard native. He also knows that someone is out to kill him. In fact, several guests have a reason to off Rocco, among them an autistic savant with...

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