DEATH IN A PALE HUE

Who knew going home could be deadly?

I will show them success. Artist Jill Madison repeats this mantra when she returns to her small hometown to restart her life. Hired to manage a new community art center, she vows to make it successful so the people of her town will have what she did not have—an education in the arts. She no sooner accepts the job than a burglar makes off with an expensive sculpture and an uninvited corpse is discovered in the basement. Even worse, the body belongs to someone Jill knew…well. Investigating what happened places Jill right in the path of a murderer.

How will she keep her job, run her first big event, and escape a killer who plans to paint her out of the picture permanently?

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“Death in a Pale Hue is alive with vibrant smalltown characters, buried secrets, and a sleuth up for the challenge of solving a murder close to home!”

~ Molly MacRae, award-winning, national bestselling author

of the Highland Bookshop Mysteries

and the Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries

“An art center brings new life to Apple Grove—until it brings death. A buried skeleton, a stolen sculpture, and a surprise murderer mark an auspicious debut for a new series. Susan Van Kirk once again brings a small, Midwestern town to life.”  

~ Judy Alter, author of Saving Irene

“The journey of artistic protagonist Jill Madison and the small town she’s determined to turn into a thriving arts center, infuses every page of this compelling mystery with warmth and gentle humor.”

~ Ellen Byron, Agatha and Lefty Award-winning author