Artifact or Fiction book by Jan Fields

A relaxing girls’ weekend takes a deadly turn for Scarlett McCormick when the resort owner suffers a suspicious demise.

When her good friend Allie Preston invites her for a weekend getaway, head curator of the Reed Museum of Art and Archaeology Scarlett McCormick admits she could use some downtime. With Scarlett’s faithful feline Cleo in tow, the friends head for Serenity Pines, a pet-friendly hotel and spa decorated with pre-Columbian artifacts. Unfortunately, the restful weekend turns out to be anything but when hotel co-owner Seth Adams is found dead in the horse stable.

Refusing to take Seth’s death in stride, Scarlett is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery and soon learns that Seth was not very popular. After another guest turns up dead and several of the resort’s artifacts are discovered to be fake, Scarlett starts to doubt Seth’s death was really an accident. Scarlett’s boyfriend, FBI agent Luke Anderson, arrives at the resort to help her get a leg up on the investigation, and together they work to uncover the killer before anyone else falls victim.

This clever whodunit from Annie’s Museum of Mysteries series is a must-read for fans of cozy mysteries, history, light romance, and female friendships.