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Vivian Joyce scores a booth at Addamsville Antiques, hoping a presence in the two-story, converted factory will boost her vintage décor business. As one of the youngest vendors, in her late thirties, Viv aims to get along well with everyone. When long-timer Kaye Burrell accuses Viv of sneaking a valuable vase from Kaye's booth into her own display, the center's owner, Jeff, points out that it might just have been a mix-up. One morning soon afterward, Kaye's bludgeoned body is found in the building's old freight elevator. The police question Viv, Jeff, and other vendors who recently clashed with Kaye. They also consider that she might have surprised a would-be thief who had ""inside"" help. Meanwhile, designers from the Addamsville Playhouse visit the antiques center looking for 1940s décor and costumes. Viv offers to lend her wares, even before she finds out that the comedy, Murder Most Noir, will star her unrequited college crush, Ed Kiernan. He's recently back from California, where he shot just one season of a TV cop series, and at first doesn't even recognize Viv as a tech who worked on their college plays, eighteen years ago. They reconnect, though, while discussing the murder at the antiques center. Viv wants to clear her name and those of her fellow vendors; Ed, typecast by now as a detective, jumps at the chance to investigate a real homicide. But will these two eager amateurs end up over their heads in danger?

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Eileen Watkins came to her fiction career from a long background in journalism, writing and editing articles on visual art, architecture, interior design and home improvement for two major daily newspapers. During that time, she interviewed artisans, designers and collectors, and acquired a taste for the type of quirky décor that fictional Vivian Joyce offers her customers. Early in her fiction career, Eileen published eight stand-alone mystery and suspense novels with Amber Quill Press, several of which won EPIC and Indie book awards. She went on to put out the Cat Groomer Mystery series with Kensington Publishing. All six books received Certificates of Excellence from the national Cat Writers' Association, and both Claw & Disorder and Night of the Were-Cat won that organization's MUSE Medallion for Mystery Fiction. Also a horse lover, Eileen published the women's fiction novel Reboot Ranch through FreedomChaser Books. She belongs to Mystery Writers of America and national Sisters in Crime, and serves as publicity officer for Sisters in Crime/Central Jersey, a.k.a. the Jersey Sleuths.

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