num_pages: 304
description:  She's a young Martha Stewart...in Old Town Virginia! New York Times bestselling author Krista Davis delights with the 14th in her enormously popular and completely charming Domestic Diva Mystery series as entertaining maven Sophie Winston must cut to the core of another murder investigation when members of an international tour group begin dropping like flies all over Old Town AlexandriaVirginia...With Old Town's DIY Home Decorating Festival in full swing Sophie's swamped juggling a bumper crop of artisans antique dealers and decorators for the busy street fair. Still when her best friend Nina suddenly needs a ride from the airport Sophie is happy to help...until she sees Nina disembarking in a state of disarray. It's obvious the trip to Portugal soured somewhere along the way. But after one of Nina's traveling companions turns up murdered the following day Sophie knows something is truly rotten...Though the crime scene is staged to look like an accident Sophie isn't fooled and peels off to conduct her own investigation. Her only clue is a strange image the victim scratched into the soil before dying. Could it point to a cryptic killer in Old Town? A bitter travel adversary? Or a cursed artifact smuggled back from the trip? As the mystery grows so does the body count and if Sophie doesn't pluck the murderer soon her best friend may be the next to fall...
language: English
title: The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit
publisher: Kensington