It’s a case of cold feet?and cold-blooded murder?as ninety-two-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull gets more than she bargained for after hosting an ill-fated wedding ceremony.

A marriage on picturesque Martha’s Vineyard promises to end up being the affair of the growing season when Cent Arbuthnot asks her cousin, feisty ninety-two-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull, if she may use her home for the reception. Victoria agrees?but she’s no idea what’s in store for the hapless couple.

For one, Cent is seriously in about Widow’s Wreath: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery personal debt and desperate to marry cash. She thinks she’s on the path to riches when she hooks Rocco Bufano, whose father can be a multi-billionaire. But unbeknownst to Penny, Rocco’s been disowned by father. He’s also in hock up to his ears and thinks he’s bagged the capture of a lifetime inside a wealthy Vineyard indigenous. He also knows that someone has gone out to destroy him. Actually, several guests have grounds to off Rocco, included in this an autistic savant using a prodigious knowledge of murder weapons.

Victoria has assumed the reception is a modest lemonade-and-gingersnap affair?but when a body is found in her cellar, it may be a happily-never-after in Widow’s Wreath, the fourteenth participating installment in Cynthia Riggs’ beloved Martha’s Vineyard mysteries.