The Unfinished Pirouette: A Mended Marvels Mystery (Mended Marvels Mysteries)

A broken ballerina. A forgotten melody. A thirty-year-old secret someone was willing to kill to protect.

Greer Tolliver can coax a song out of almost any broken music box in New England. People are harder.

When a 1920s wind-up ballerina arrives at Tolliver’s Mended Marvels from the estate of a recently deceased dance teacher, Greer expects a routine restoration. Then she winds it.

The ballerina plays The Sugar Plum Fairy—until the mechanism shifts and begins playing a second melody. It’s part of the unfinished final ballet of Lionel Aster, Pellbrook’s celebrated composer, who vanished thirty years ago without a trace.

Suddenly, everyone seems interested in Greer’s discovery: a wealthy collector, a Boston auctioneer, Aster’s former manager, and several longtime Pellbrook residents who remember more about the composer’s disappearance than they’re willing to admit.

Then Aster’s former manager is found dead inside the old music box factory.

With her best friend Bea at her side, a three-legged ginger cat named Escapement supervising from the window, and an entire town full of old secrets, Greer begins following a trail hidden in music, antique mechanisms, and the legacy of the grandfather who taught her everything she knows.

Because the little ballerina isn’t broken.

Someone made her stop exactly where she does.

The Unfinished Pirouette is the first Mended Marvels Mystery, an atmospheric small-town cozy mystery filled with antique treasures, friendship, gentle humor, an ingenious puzzle, and secrets that have been waiting decades to be uncovered. Each Mended Marvels Mystery stands alone and can be enjoyed in any order.