A BRUSH WITH DEATH

When image is everything, how do you protect the truth?

Sheriff Sandy Sumner is fighting for reelection. But the real battle begins when an image consultant and his geriatric seamstress with a pin fetish, reluctantly team up with mean and entitled makeup artist, Katie Kunst, to give her a brutally honest makeover. Confident that her track record will speak for itself—no lipstick required—Sandy resists the spectacle. That is, until an unexpected challenger enters the race.

Shelby Lexington is the town darling and reigning Kasselville Best Gardens winner for 34 years
has no law enforcement experience—unless you count her late father, renowned curmudgeon and former sheriff Walter Lexington. When Shelby publicly questions Sandy’s leadership—and the cost of housing Frederick the Wolf in her custody—she’s ready to show receipts!

Already on edge, Sandy receives one of her visions—both a gift and a curse—that shows her Katie’s brutal attack by a yellow-booted assailant. When Katie ends up comatose and then dead just days into her campaign Sandy turns to her Aunt Helga, an eccentric wood witch, to help her revisit her vision and reveal the killer.

But the deeper Sandy digs, the more she unearths secrets buried in her past—memories she had long forgotten, and a betrayal by the very institution she swore to serve. Can Sandy catch a killer, confront the truth, and keep her badge… or will the past—and her challenger—take everything?

Meet Sandy Sumner, the shapeshifting sheriff of Kasselville, a small town in the fairytale lands. A Brush With Death is the fifth title in this slice-of-life, cozy fantasy series.

If you like flawed (and clawed!) characters, intriguing puzzles, and dramatic twists, then you’ll love Tallulah Moore’s wicked whodunit.