Model Suspect: Book One of the Backyard Model Mysteries

Penny-pinching fashionista Melanie Tower is done with the drama of New York City and returns to her Wisconsin hometown to open a craft mall--but is the drama done with her? At the start of the holiday season--her jewelers', bakers', and crafters' busiest time--a social media influencer is found dead in Mel's mall, pinned under a vintage door.

Mel immediately becomes a suspect in the holiday mystery. The victim had been committing a crafty crime. She'd been recruiting Mel's customers to open a competing store!

Her life becomes twisted as macramé. To find the killer "poser" and prove her innocence, she must attend a week of holiday parties in her quaint village, a town that resembles the Cotswolds. Mel embraces her inner Midwesterner while polka-ing at the Cheese Ball, judging entries in the Devils vs. Angels bake-off, and staring in a wacky reader's theater event at Midwinter's Night at the Library.

Model Suspect is The Devil Wears Prada meets a Wisconsin supper club. It's a Midwest whodunnit, a holiday cozy, a humorous small-town mystery served with a brandy old-fashioned sweet and a side of cheese curds.

Includes a recipe for holiday shortbread cookies.
No foul language, sex, or graphic violence.