Murder in a Basket — Amanda Flower

She's dressed in pioneer garb and running a face-painting booth -- not exactly college librarian India Hayes's ideal way to display her artistic skill. Still, working her town's Founder's Festival beats getting grief from her officious committee-running sister. Until India finds basketmaker Tess Ross bludgeoned to death by one of her own basket molds.

India is sure that one of the prime suspects -- a hapless library worker who is also Tess's son -- is innocent. But proving it means going head-to-head with the prickly group battling for custody of Tess's labradoodle, Zach, who's due to inherit a multimillion-dollar estate. Now as India sleuths through a mess of crafter egos, blackmail and one strange cold case, she's seeing a pattern for murder that could be a lethal careerender…