Wicked Weaves
by Joyce and Jim Lavene

First in the Renaissance Faire mystery series featuring craft apprentice and sleuth Jessie Morton.

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Assistant professor Jessie Morton spends her summers at the Renaissance Village honing her skills and finding the lady, lord, or serf whodunnit.

This summer Jessie is the apprentice to Mary Shift, a basket-maker with a dark past as well as incredible weaving skills. One day a man is bid a deadly fare-thee-well with Mary's signature weave around his neck. It's up to Jessie to spring Mary from the stocks of the Myrtle Beach police station. Yet innocence is hard to prove in a place where there's a fine line between reality and good theater—and history is bound to repeat itself.

Other Books by Joyce and Jim Lavene

Looking for Mr. Good Witch
A Retired Witches Mystery #2

Spell Booked
A Retired Witches Mystery #1

A Finder's Fee
A Missing Pieces Mystery #5

A Haunting Dream
A Missing Pieces Mystery #4

Treacherous Toys
A Renaissance Faire Mystery #5

A Spirited Gift
A Missing Pieces Mystery #3

Harrowing Hats
A Renaissance Faire Mystery #4

A Touch of Gold
A Missing Pieces Mystery #2

Deadly Daggers
A Renaissance Faire Mystery #3

A Timely Vision
A Missing Pieces Mystery #1

Ghastly Glass
A Renaissance Faire Mystery #2

A Corpse for Yew
A Peggy Lee Garden Mystery #5

Perfect Poison
A Peggy Lee Garden Mystery #4

Poisoned Petals
A Peggy Lee Garden Mystery #3

Fruit of the Poisoned Tree
A Garden Mystery #2

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Joyce and Jim Lavene's Bio

People frequently ask us how we began writing together. And how we can write together at all!

Writing together was a natural evolution for us. We have been in several businesses together during our almost thirty year marriage.

Joyce began writing poetry when she was nine. Jim scribbled a little, but mostly read a lot. We decided to work together on a series of stories we told our children to amuse them after Hurricane Hugo hit our house in 1989. Without power or water for weeks, we needed something!

We started writing novels together after that and are still going strong! We also enjoy writing non-fiction about the people we meet in our travels. Ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things with their lives, like the characters we write in our novels.

As for our personal lives, we have three wonderful children, Chris, Jeni and Emmie as well as two fantastic grandchildren, Eric and Gabrielle. We love cats and have too many of them. We have a chocolate Lab named Bear. Jim is into computers, photography and line drawing. Joyce is active in sculpting, alternative medicine and water color painting.

All of our books are purposely written to be vegetarian and inspiring. We believe that we all have a journey that leads to the discovery of ourselves; our ultimate destiny.