Death by Tortoise
(2026)(The first book in the Sable Wilder Mystery series)
A Story by Magnolia Murdersworth
In Kettle Cove, Texas, the art is lovely. The murder weapon is a fifty-pound bronze tortoise. Nobody said the art world was subtle.
When an art dealer turns up dead in a sculptor's studio — killed with her own bronze casting, leaving her as the obvious suspect — investigator Sable Wilder takes the case. She has a photographic memory, a low tolerance for sloppy framing, and a strong suspicion that a crime this obvious was designed to look that way. The deeper she digs into Kettle Cove's sun-bleached artist colony, the more she finds underneath: a gallery full of secrets, a fraud running years deep, and a killer nobody saw coming.
Death by Tortoise. The first Sable Wilder Mystery. In a town full of artists, someone's been very creative.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
When an art dealer turns up dead in a sculptor's studio — killed with her own bronze casting, leaving her as the obvious suspect — investigator Sable Wilder takes the case. She has a photographic memory, a low tolerance for sloppy framing, and a strong suspicion that a crime this obvious was designed to look that way. The deeper she digs into Kettle Cove's sun-bleached artist colony, the more she finds underneath: a gallery full of secrets, a fraud running years deep, and a killer nobody saw coming.
Death by Tortoise. The first Sable Wilder Mystery. In a town full of artists, someone's been very creative.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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