An Interior Design Mystery Series

Seville, Indiana, has five traffic lights and one interior design firm: Designer Jeans, co-founded 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.
 
Jean is finally getting the recognition she deserves for being a designing woman, and now she’s been recruited by Seville’s newly-formed Fast Flippers—a group dedicated to flipping houses.  Their first project is to re-vamp a tired, Victorian mansion and Jean, with the help of family and friends, is determined to restore the painted lady to her former glory in time for the upcoming open house.  The crowning design touch is to add a throw pillow embroidered with “Rest in Peace” to the newly constructed window seat.
 
But when the pillow goes missing, a search begins and turns up not only the pillow—but also a dead Flipper! Now Sunday’s open house is overshadowed by Saturday night’s crime scene—and Jean won’t rest until they’ve searched every nook and cranny for someone with designs on murder.

Seville, Indiana, has five traffic lights and one interior design firm: Designer Jeans, co-founded 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.
 
Although Jean is a designing woman, her business is in a bit of a slump. So when a new interior design job from Dona Deville comes her way 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 hurricane lamps and hand-hooked rugs are shelved when she opens the front door and discovers the well-heeled shoes of Dona herself, who has unfortunately 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.

Seville, Indiana has five traffic lights and one interior design firm—Designer Jeans, co-founded 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…
 
Death of the party
 
Even the death of a local bookseller can’t throw a pall over the grand re-opening of the Sleepy Hollow Country Club’s dining room. It’s a triumph for Jean, who transformed it from tired and bland to Art Deco grand. But when the manager—who fought Jean every step of the way—rises to make a toast, he promptly falls down dead. Two fatalities in one week have aroused Jean’s curiosity—and her instincts for discovering deadly patterns…