num_pages: 352
description: When a Renaissance Faire visits the small town of Shady Creek Vermont amateur sleuth and proprietor of bookish theme pub The Inkwell Sadie Coleman finds deadly happenings stick around like red wine stains on white tunics in the fourth Literary Pub Mystery by USA Today bestselling author Sarah Fox. The Trueheart Renaissance Faire and Circus has rolled into town attracting locals who cant wait to spend a few summer days lost in a whimsical world of all-knowing fortune tellers and daring acrobats. Well-read pub owner Sadie Coleman is swept up in the magic herself when she serves drinks to the faires resident wizard the shamelessly brazen illusionist Ozzie Stone and scores two tickets to his opening performance. Sadie has no complaints about indulging in a free show with her new beau craft brewery owner Grayson Blake. But while Ozzie is an instant crowd pleaser the real surprise comes when he collapses in the middle of his set. Its not part of the actOzzie is dead seemingly poisoned by someone who wasnt clowning around about writing the roguish showmans final chapter. The terrifying situation intensifies when the police eye one of Sadies employees last seen caught in a suspicious fist fight at the fairground. With so much at stake Sadie must strain through a suspect list longer than her cocktail menu to find the real knave of a killer. But when another performer is murdered it becomes clear that bringing the mixed-up murderer to justice will be about as dangerous as walking the high wire after happy hour 
language: English
title: Claret and Present Danger
publisher: Kensington