Beads of Doubt
by Barbara Burnett Smith
Beader and former senator Kitzi Camden has the family manse sparkling like a jewel for the upcoming Bead Tea charity event. But the mood abruptly changes when a crafty cousin threatens to kick Kitzi and her mother out on the street. Then her cousin's beady-eyed partner is found dead in a Dumpster nearby. There are plenty of suspects at the Tea-and Kitzi's one of them.