Decorated to Death — Peg Marberg

Seville, Indiana, has five traffic lights and one interior design firm -- Designer Jeans, cofounded by Jean Hastings and her daughter, Jean Jr. Lately they're finding that the keen eyes needed for plotting color schemes and tracking down flea market treasures also come in handy for interpreting more sinister designs...

A DECORATOR'S NIGHTMARE

Although Jean is a designing woman, her business is in a bit of a slump. So when Dona Deville offers her a new interior design job, she's delighted. Dona has inherited an abandoned country cottage and wants Jean to take it from plain old shabby to gorgeous shabby chic. But Jean's plans for decorating with hurricane lamps and hand-hooked rugs are shelved when she opens the front door and discovers her client has been sent to meet her maker. Now Jean must piece together a pattern of a different sort in order to catch a killer with designs on murder...