Ruby Red Herring

In this Avery Ayers Antique Mystery series debut, perfect for fans of Ellery Adams and Jane K. Cleland, an antiques appraiser hunts a missing gem while probing her parents' deaths.After their parents' deaths, Avery Ayers and her teenaged sister, Tilly, take over the family business, Antiquities Artifacts Appraised. Life in Lilac Grove is filled with jewels, tapestries, paintings...and the antics of eccentric Aunt Midge. But their world is rocked when they learn that the theft of a priceless ruby may be connected to their parents' demise.The trouble starts when the Museum of Antiquities hires Avery to appraise a rare, resplendent ruby. It bears a striking similarity to a stone in the museum's bejeweled dragon's-head medallion. One of the dragon's ruby eyes was stolen long agoreplaced with a fake. Now, Avery's colleaguespompous Sir Robert Lane and fatherly Micah Abbottsuspect they may have the missing gem. But facets of the case...