China Bayles and her friend and business partner Ruby Wilcox are
attending a craft festival in nearby Indigo, Texas, and helping in a
natural dyeing workshop with China's good friend, Allison Selby. But
they find the whole town in turmoil because Allison's uncle, Casey Ford,
has sold the mining rights to most of the ground under Indigo to a
company set to begin strip mining almost immediately. All of the
merchants rent buildings from Casey Ford and they are helpless to stop
this. But the day after Casey made his announcement to the whole town,
he is shot by his own shotgun in a building he booby trapped himself.
But, why would he walk right into his own booby trap? It's another
murder for China and company to unravel.

Another comfy visit with a character I've come to think of as an old
friend. I knew whodunit before I was halfway through the book, but that
didn't matter because the writing is good enough to keep me interested. 4 ( )

China Bayles