Picture Perfect Murder

The paintings were hidden for eighty years. The man who found them has been dead for three days.

Heather Mitchell thought the Sunday Lake Spring Art Fair would be a gentle return to the world she once knew — galleries, brushwork, the quiet satisfaction of a well-framed canvas. What she finds instead is a vendor dead behind his booth, a collection of unremarkable paintings that are anything but, and a mystery that reaches from a small Florida lakeside town all the way back to wartime Vienna.

When Heather's trained eye spots something no one else would notice — a hidden signature beneath a clown painting at a craft fair — the Sunday Lady Sleuths are pulled into a case that spans continents and decades. Behind the garish surfaces of ordinary frames lie masterworks stolen from a Jewish family by the Nazis in 1942, listed for eighty years as destroyed. Someone has been hiding them. Someone has been trafficking them. And someone has just committed murder to keep that secret safe.

With Rachel digging through wartime archives, Margaret and Annette working the community intelligence network with their usual devastating efficiency, and Sam quietly steady at her side, Heather must untangle a web of forged provenance, shell companies, and old crimes before the killer disappears — taking with them the last hope of returning two stolen paintings to the family they were taken from.

But the deeper Heather looks, the closer she gets to a shadow from her Miami past she isn't ready to name yet.

Picture Perfect Murder is the second book in the Sunday Lady Sleuths series — a cozy mystery set in sun-warmed Sunday Lake, Florida, where community runs deep, history has long arms, and one woman's eye for art might be exactly what justice needs.

Perfect for fans of Joanne Fluke, Laura Childs, and Diane Mott Davidson.