Lie Like a Rug

While escorting Bryn Derwyn Academy's most infamous student downtown to be scared straight by a federal judge, amateur sleuth Ginger Barnes is shocked to find her childhood babysitter, textile Professor Charlie Finnemeyer, on trial for fraudulently aging an Oriental rug. Even more alarming, two witnesses against him died suspiciously convenient "natural" deaths.Eager to help Charlie's attorney any way she can, Gin pries a tightly held secret from a university president and exposes murder motives for a popular TV craft show host, and two antique dealers. Charlie's overprotective wife also has a talent for showing up at the wrong place at the worst possible time. Still, the evidence implicating Charlie can't be swept under a rug. Before Gin can persuade anyone else he's innocent, she must first convince herself.